US Patent Issued to Lenovo Global Technology (United States) on April 8 for "Signed update package including a software update payload and compatibility data" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,478, issued on April 8, was assigned to Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Signed update package including a software update payload and compatibility data" was invented by Fred Allison Bower III (Durham, N.C.), Caihong Zhang (Shanghai) and Ming Lei (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer program product and computer-implemented method include operations including identifying a software update payload that is available for distribution and identifying compatibility data for the software update payload, wherein the compatibility data identifies configurations of a computing device that are ...