ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,424, issued on March 31, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Managing application updates" was invented by Haifeng Ji (Mountain View, Calif.), Giang Huong Le (Norwalk, Calif.), Luis Silva Vargas (San Jose, Calif.) and Alexey Semenov (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process according to the techniques described herein includes determining a set of available application updates for one or more applications installed at a computing device, and determining, based at least in part on an amount of metered data available during a time period and an amount of metered data used during the time period, an ap...