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Unable to get the list of patches while running Invoke-AzVMPatchAssessment
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Description
### Description
I'm using [Invoke-AzVMPatchAssessment](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/az.compute/invoke-azvmpatchassessment?view=azps-12.0.0) to retrieve the list of pending patches in an Azure VM. As per the documentation, it returns [PSVirtualMachinePatchAssessmentResult](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.azure.commands.compute.automation.models.psvirtualmachinepatchassessmentresult?view=az-ps-latest) containing a [Patches ](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.azure.commands.compute.automation.models.psvirtualmachinepatchassessmentresult.patches?view=az-ps-latest#microsoft-azure-commands-compute-automation-models-psvirtualmachinepatchassessmentresult-patches) property.
However running the Invoke-AzVMPatchAssessment returns empty/null Patches property while CriticalAndSecurityPatchCount is more than 1.

Shouldn't it return a list of pending patches in the Patches property?
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### Environment data
```PowerShell
Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 7.4.2
PSEdition Core
GitCommitId 7.4.2
OS Microsoft Windows 10.0.22631
Platform Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion 3.0
```
### Module versions
```PowerShell
Version Name Repository Description
------- ---- ---------- -----------
12.0.0 Az PSGallery Microsoft Azure PowerShell - Cmdlets to manage resources in Azure. This module is c…
```
### Error output
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