US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Sept. 9 for "Patch sharing mechanism in open-source environments" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,683, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Patch sharing mechanism in open-source environments" was invented by Eran Kuris (Holon, Israel) and Avraham Talmor (Rishon Lezion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain users can be notified to manage collaboration for a software build. For example, a service can detect a copy of a file of a software build from an open-source environment being copied into a local repository of a first client device of a first user that is part of authorized users authorized to access the file. The first client device can apply a modification to the copy of the file to gen...