ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,810, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Mechanisms for selecting node upgrade order" was invented by Shrikant Thakare (Burlington, Mass.), Maxence Weyrich (San Francisco), Hemanth Siddulugari (Dublin, Calif.), Julian Chow (San Francisco) and Shivakarthik Subramanyam (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to upgrading nodes. A computer system may detect that an updated node image has been created that is an update to a previous node image used to deploy a plurality of nodes into an environment associated with the computer system. The computer system may determin...