ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,551, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multi-source device policy management" was invented by Anjali Tibrewal (Bangalore, India), Pratyul Kapoor (Bangalore, India), Akshay Dugar (Bengaluru, India) and Monica Singh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product for correlating dynamic device configurations from multiple sources. The method may include identifying device management settings from a device management system. The method may also include receiving source settings from a second source. The method may also include analyzi...