US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for in-place application upgrades" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,519, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for in-place application upgrades" was invented by Stuart Douglas (Orange, Australia) and Jason Greene (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides new and innovative systems and methods for in-place upgrades of applications. In an example, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining source code, obtaining automated tests, generating a software application based on the source code, the software application validated based on the automated tests and the software application includes the automated tests, depl...