US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 8 for "Considering differences of software images during software image distribution using patches" (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,872, issued on July 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Considering differences of software images during software image distribution using patches" was invented by Joshua James Hursey (La Crosse, Wis.), Thomas Gooding (Rochester, Minn.), William Morrison (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Geoff Paulsen (Plano, Texas) and David Solt (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes receiving a first image, having a first image tag, to store in a predetermined image storage service, and determining whether the first image tag matches any image tag...