ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,204, issued on June 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Launching copies of installation software that rolls back agent updates when cluster updates fail" was invented by Amarendra Behera (Bangalore, India), Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India), Jayashree Radha (Bangalore, India) and Ken Owens (Burlington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System enables selection of application hosts which meet update requirements, then downloads update for instances of application agent corresponding to selected application hosts. System puts selected application hosts in maintenance mode, which prevents selected application...