US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Nov. 4 for "Software deployment among different computing platforms" (Colorado, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,736, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Software deployment among different computing platforms" was invented by Jeffrey Alan Sikkink (Longmont, Colo.), Michael Glen Lotz (Longmont, Colo.), Matthew Kellerman (Boulder, Colo.) and Marquis G. Waller (Beverly, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, method, and software for software deployment. In an embodiment, a software deployment supervisor receives deployment parameters from an entity regarding deployment of software, identifies resource information for resources on a plurality of computing platforms to host the software, select a host computing platform b...