ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,115, issued on July 28, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Patching endpoints in an isolated, air-gapped environment" was invented by Shodhan Shetty (Udupi, India), Virginia Mayo (Jersey City, N.J.) and Cindy J. Mullen (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method may include querying a centralized patch repository for new patch data; receiving a confirmation that there is new patch data in the centralized patch repository; spinning-up a proxy in an isolated computing environment in response to the receiving the confirmation; disabling an air-gap of the isolated computing environment configured to...