ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,278, issued on July 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Cloud-friendly automated declarative update deployment" was invented by Parmeshwr Prasad (Bangalore, India) and Raveendra Babu Madala (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system detects a registration of a specification for an update resource, and generates an update object according to a request, wherein the update object is an instance of the update resource. The system triggers an update process for a containerized application installed in a node using the update object."

The patent was filed on Oct. 10, 2023, under Ap...