ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,177, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for managing software provisioning based on adjusted usage conditions of software items" was invented by Martijn Van der Schaaf (Zuidland, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and method for managing software item access. A method may include: monitoring usage of a plurality of software items distributed over a network of computing devices; identifying a contract for the network governing the usage of the plurality of software items, wherein the contract includes a plurality of usage ...