ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,442, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Device-specific pre-configuration of cloud endpoints" was invented by Arun Ramadasan Mannengal (Sammamish, Wash.), Madhavan Kesavan (Redmond, Wash.) and Hanumantha Rao Kommalapati (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pre-configuring of a set of cloud endpoints to connect to a device in response to receiving a request that cloud endpoints be pre-configured for connection to the device. The request is used to identify the set of cloud endpoints that is to be so pre-configured. Then, a pre-configuration instruction is formulated ...