ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,182, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Workstation uptime, maintenance, and reboot service" was invented by Colin Feeser (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing updates to executable programming code on a computer system in a computer network. A maintenance service utility is configured to launch a maintenance procedure at a specified time during operation of the computer system. Operation of a maintenance timer utility is activated during startup of the computer system to track and monitor the amount of time the computer system has been operating since startup. The mai...