ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,252, issued on June 2, was assigned to INTEGRITY SECURITY SERVICES LLC (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Device update transmission using a filter" was invented by Neil Locketz (Anaheim Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for updating computerized devices. Functions and operations can include: obtaining a filter data structure (e.g., a bloom filter data structure) that may include hash values corresponding to each of the computerized devices to be updated; determining whether a computerized device is to obtain a device update based on a hash value associated with the computerized device matching a hash v...