ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,570, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Valve Corp. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Efficient file-delivery techniques" was invented by Taylor Karsten Sherman (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are, among other things, techniques, devices, and systems for identifying portions of a new version of an application that are new to the new version and portions of the new version that are common to the new version and a previous version of the application, such that a client computing device may efficiently update from the previous version to the new version."
The patent was filed on Sept. 5, 2023, under Application No. 18/242,28...