ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,010, issued on July 15, was assigned to Gluware IP LLC (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Hierarchical scoring system for distributed networks" was invented by Stanislav Miskovic (San Jose, Calif.), Olivier Huynh Van (Sacramento, Calif.), Tim Silverline (San Ramon, Calif.), Kyle Scarmardo (Dallas), Kevin Irwin (Flower Mound, Texas), Jeffrey T. Boone (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Ernest J. Lefner IV (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining scores specific to a system is provided. The method comprises determining scores based on data associated with a component configuration, classifying the scores with respect t...