ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,682, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Updating edge nodes in distributed computing environments using partitions" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Pierre-Yves Chibon (Saint-Pol-de-Leon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Edge nodes in distributed computing environments can be updated according to some aspects described herein. For example, a first node in the distributed computing environment can receive an update request from a management node. The update request can include an update file for updating a second node. In response to receiving the update request, the first no...