US Patent Issued to Cristie Software on July 7 for "Process for automatically upgrading an operating system on a computer" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,272, issued on July 7, was assigned to Cristie Software Ltd (Great Britain).

"Process for automatically upgrading an operating system on a computer" was invented by Ian Cameron (Stroud, Great Britain), Scott Sterry (Stroud, Great Britain), James Reynolds (Stroud, Great Britain) and Jordan Stopford (Stroud, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically upgrading an operating system on a computer is provided. The method includes collecting system state information from the computer, and querying a knowledge base to identify state modification actions. Querying the knowledge base may include use of a classificat...