ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,963, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ormuco Inc. (Montreal).

"Method of maintaining a computing process executable by a networked computing device" was invented by Orlando Bayter (Montreal) and Genevieve Nantel (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for maintaining a computing process executable by a computing device is provided. The method involves: (a) receiving by a maintenance device a status indication associated with the computing process; (b) determining one or more proposed actions associated with the status indication; (c) selecting a maintenance action from among the proposed actions; and (d) exec...