US Patent Issued to Red Hat on May 19 for "Deploying patches via RPMs" (Irish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,246, issued on May 19, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Deploying patches via RPMs" was invented by Pierre-Yves Chibon (Puteaux, France) and Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automated targeted patching of a target system. In one embodiment the present disclosure includes a method for compiling binary files from a source code package; running a diff tool to determine differences between the binary files and an application already installed on a target system; generating, based on the determined differences, a patch that includes at least one file to be installed on t...