ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,273, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SMARTSHIFT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for code analysis heat map interfaces" was invented by Albrecht Gass (Fullerton, Calif.), Stefan Hetges (Mannheim, Germany), Nikolaos Faradouris (Mannheim, Germany) and Oliver Flach (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application is directed towards systems and methods for providing a heat map interface for analyzing and reporting transformation capabilities of a source installation to a target installation of an application. Characteristics of the source installation are displayed in an easy,...