US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 13 for "Reducing downtime caused by incompatibility issues from upgrading firmware and software" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,470, issued on May 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Reducing downtime caused by incompatibility issues from upgrading firmware and software" was invented by Anjil Reddy Chinnapatlolla (Bangalore, India), Hariganesh Muralidharan (Bangalore, India), Satish K. Rao (Austin, Texas), John John Goodson (Austin, Texas), Anil Kalavakolanu (Austin, Texas), Peter J. Heyrman (Rochester, Minn.) and Vani D. Ramagiri (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for estimating upgrade time and mitigating errors when updating a virtualized computing system. Operations of this method inclu...