ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,230, issued on June 10, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automated network configuration using configuration templates based on device traffic attributes" was invented by Lars Rossen (Ballerup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices with low or no security are often added to networks. These devices have the ability to utilize the network and, accordingly, may pose a security risk. Systems and methods herein enable a device to be added to a network and, if the resulting new traffic matches a template, the device is established on an automatically created virtual local area network (VLAN) used solely for ...