US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 4 for "Reinforcement learning for controlling software update timing" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,840, issued on March 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Reinforcement learning for controlling software update timing" was invented by Dhirendra Kumar Bhupati (Sammamish, Wash.) and Johnny Sterling Campbell (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a software update distribution service that leverages reinforcement learning-a specific type machine learning algorithm-to discover or learn optimal times (e.g., a schedule) to download software updates and to install software updates for software applications installed on a group of client computing devices of a specific e...