ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,717, issued on July 14, was assigned to NinjaOne LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Agentic systems and methods for managing patch deployment" was invented by Rahul Hari Hirani (Austin, Texas), Peter Bretton (Harvard, Mass.) and Joel Carusone (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for managing deployment of software patches across a plurality of client devices. A patch management server acquires vendor-supplied patch data, community-sourced patch data, and/or platform-based data, and evaluates the information using weighting logic that may be implemented by a machine-learning model trained on historical patc...