ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,570, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Plug-and-play software and firmware integration" was invented by Colette Elan Feazle (Houston), Kiran Gopala Reddy Sunanda (Houston), Ranganathan Sridharan (Houston) and William David Bethancourt (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system executing a surface software application as part of a decoupled software architecture includes detecting that an update is available for a software plugin component of the surface software application. Each software plugin component is associated with a respective feature of the surface software appl...