US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 5 for "Controlling operating system upgrades based on usage data of client device" (Washington, Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,914, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Controlling operating system upgrades based on usage data of client device" was invented by Wei Huang (Redmond, Wash.), ZhongYuan Li (Redmond, Wash.), Brian A. Pokrifka (Redmond, Wash.), William P. Donkervoet (Mandeville, La.), Carla M. DiFranco (Seattle) and Christian A. Hernandez Sanchez (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for selectively allowing or blocking operating system upgrades based on probabilities that the upgraded operating system may result in a fault condition. In an example, the technology may perform a ...