US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 6 for "Validated software installation and dependency graph" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,729, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Validated software installation and dependency graph" was invented by Benjamin E. Santaus (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for verifying a software package version are disclosed. A new package version for a software package is obtained. A repository maintains package versions for the software package. The new package version includes a new dependency and a new installation instruction for the software package. The repository lists one or more other package versions, each of which includes one or more other dependencies, for the so...