ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,492, issued on May 6, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Configuration management using knowledge graphs" was invented by Vinay Sawal (Fremont, Calif.) and Tsehsin Jason Liu (Wellesley, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing a configuration of a client deployment to provide a service are disclosed. The configuration may be managed by managing configuration drift that may occur in the configuration of the client deployment. The configuration drift may be managed by monitoring for changes in the configuration and restoring the configuration to a goal configuration. The changes may be m...