ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,082, issued on April 29, was assigned to Aiden Technologies Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Automatic machine deployment and configuration" was invented by Sean Eren Maloney (Shasta Lake, Calif.), Jeffrey David Moore (Croton on Hudson, N.Y.) and Joshua E Aaron (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for automated computer configuration. In some implementations, a method includes providing a configuration tool on a computer. The method further includes determining compliance of the computer with an IT policy for access to one or more computer systems re...