ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,705, issued on May 27, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"System and method for phased software update deployment" was invented by Ryan E. Brock (Cary, Ill.), Michael J. Ringholm (Coplay, Pa.), Chris Kenley (Gurnee, Ill.) and Corbin P. Johnson (Arlington Heights, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software deployment method in a server includes: obtaining a software update for deployment to a plurality of media processing devices; performing a primary deployment phase by: (i) transmitting the software update to selected media processing devices according to a primary deployment rate; (ii) responsive to...