ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,812, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).
"Constraint-based upgrade and deployment" was invented by Ian Mair (New York), Greg DeArment (Seattle), Lee Avital (New York), Mark Elliot (London), Michael Nazario (New York), Punyashloka Biswal (Norwalk, Conn.) and William Hickman (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more software products/services may be installed on a cloud deployment. Product versions of such services can be upgraded (or rolled back) based on a deployment plan comprising tasks adapted to reach a target deployment state. A central upgrade server can forward tasks to an upg...