ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,011, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FILO SYSTEMS LTD. (Tivon, Israel).

"Systems and methods for generating and applying a patch package" was invented by Etamar H. Laron (Tivon, Israel) and Michael J. May (Tivon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of creating and applying a software package (commonly referred to as "patch" or "patch package") that enables to more efficiently create an updated version of a software package, by applying the patch over the original software version. Embodiments of the present invention may require more resources, e.g., time, processing power and storage space, to prepare (creat...