ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,246, issued on July 29, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Automatic update management in a computing infrastructure" was invented by Siva Kumar Devulapalli (Hyderabad, India), Swarup Prakash Kar (Hyderabad, India), Narsing Raj (Hyderabad, India) and Hitendra Kumar (Ghaziabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a computing infrastructure including a plurality of computing nodes and at least one blockchain network including one or more of the computing nodes. The one or more computing nodes of the at least one blockchain network are configured to receive a service request to update a first so...