US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 30 for "Managed entity configurator anomaly detection" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,214, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Managed entity configurator anomaly detection" was invented by Alberto Gonzalez Prieto (San Jose, Calif.) and Tommaso Pimpo (Duval, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting an anomalous configurator of a plurality of managed entities. A plurality of configuration trees, each representing configuration parameters at a corresponding managed entity, include annotations that identify a configurator that configured each parameter. For a particular configurator, a plurality of subtrees is generated from the plurality of configuration trees. ...