ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,013, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for device configuration using a configuration normalization platform" was invented by Peter J. Kaufman (Sammamish, Wash.), Adrian F. Teran (Sammamish, Wash.), Yi Zhao (Medina, Wash.), Marius C. Niculescu (Redmond, Wash.), Shayak Lahiri (Redmond, Wash.), Sanghamitra Mukherjee (Redmond, Wash.), Matthew Wayman Reynolds (Maple Valley, Wash.), Haipeng Li (Redmond, Wash.), Daniel S. Dudugjian (Woodinville, Wash.), Riki June (Seattle) and Feng Yue (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure...