ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,590, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Smart client for deployment architecture with unreliable network connection" was invented by Daniel Pittner (Esslingen am Neckar, Germany), Martin Smolny (Boeblingen, Germany), Christian Habermann (Boeblingen, Germany), Silke Wastl (Sindelfingen, Germany) and Michael Haide (Jettingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide computer-implemented methods, computer program products and computer systems for enabling modifying a behavior of a consuming component. The method comprises requesting a smar...