ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,433, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Upgrade infrastructure with integration points having dynamically determined callbacks" was invented by Patricia Lee Allen (Hollis, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing an upgrade can include: defining integration points, each associated with a workflow processing point of an upgrade workflow of an upgrade infrastructure or framework; and performing processing by code of the upgrade infrastructure or framework that performs the upgrade workflow to upgrade a system, wherein the upgrade includes upgrading a first feature, facility or s...