ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,259, issued on June 17, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).
"Systems and methods for automated configuration of communications equipment" was invented by Timothy Fullenkamp (Broomfield, Colo.), Majdi Dawud (Lafayette, Colo.), Erik McLeod (Longmont, Colo.), Russell Richardson (Thornton, Colo.) and Alexander Talavera (Broomfield, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field device, including: a processor; and memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: login to a local node device physically connected to the field device; enable a common command protocol on the local node...