US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 24 for "Detecting potentially non-compliant short-lived assets in a computing platform" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,698, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detecting potentially non-compliant short-lived assets in a computing platform" was invented by Anca Sailer (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Andrew Douglas Hately (Austin, Texas) and Vikas Agarwal (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for detecting potentially non-compliant short-lived assets in a computing platform. In response to a command to delete a program module, a determination is made as to whether the program module has a life less than a predetermined time. A determination is ma...