ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,909, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to JFrog Ltd. (Netanya, Israel).

"Software release distribution across a hierarchical network" was invented by Yoav Landman (Netanya, Israel) and Noam Shemesh (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and computer readable storage devices for software distribution across a hierarchical network. A method includes sending, by a first node device, a registration request message to a second node device of a first distribution group of the hierarchical network. The registration request message indicates a request for the first node device to join ...