ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,874, issued on July 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Efficient configuration management in continuous deployment" was invented by Amitava Roy (Lexington, Mass.), Robert Ballantyne (Mansfield, Mass.) and Muhamad Djunaedi (Northborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, system, and non-transitory processor-readable storage medium for efficient software configuration management system in a continuous deployment environment are provided herein. An example method includes monitoring, by a continuous deployment module, configuration deployment file changes in a software configuration management system, w...