ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,299, issued on June 3, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Edge compute environment automatic server configuration tool" was invented by Kevin McBride (Lone Tree, Colo.), James Sutherland (Vancouver, Wash.), Bryan Dreyer (Bellevue, Wash.) and Kristopher Dick (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server configuration tool is presented for autonomously configuring servers located in a network. The tool may autonomously configure multiple servers in parallel based on individual states of the servers, which may be periodically and simultaneously determined. For example, the tool may determine which action to ...