ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,223, issued on April 14.
"Dynamic patch management system and method" was invented by Rahul Hari Hirani (Austin, Texas), Peter Bretton (Harvard, Mass.) and Joel Carusone (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for managing deployment of software patches across a plurality of client devices. A patch management server acquires vendor-supplied patch data, community-sourced patch data, and/or platform-based data, and evaluates the information using weighting logic that may be implemented by a machine-learning model trained on historical patch outcomes. Based on the weighted evaluation, the system ...