ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,698, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Upgrading or updating a software application" was invented by Stephan Greyer (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a computer-implemented method for upgrading or updating a software application installed on a host system, a first map of an operating system of the host system is generated. The operating system of the host system is started inside a virtual machine environment using the first map, and the software application is updated or upgraded in the virtual machine environment. A second map of the operating system in the current ...