ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,788, issued on July 1, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for gauging differences between network configurations" was invented by Vinay Sawal (Fremont, Calif.), Jayanth Kumar Reddy Perneti (Bangalore, India) and Sithiqu Shahul Hameed (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are embodiments that use a language model to embed or encode configuration elements (e.g., commands, prompts, etc.) into dense, latent representations that incorporate semantic and contextual information. Using a trained language model, a configuration for a network device may be converted into a set of...