ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,145, issued on June 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for improving functionality and remote management of computing resources deployed in a controlled hierarchical network" was invented by Chandra Mouli Addaguduru (Bangalore, India), Phalgun Garimella (Hyderabad, India), Krupesh Satishkumar Dhruva (Hyderabad, India) and Narasimha Rao Karumanchi (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to utilizing a hierarchical network communication system to efficiently manage and monitor a controlled hierarchical network. In particular, the hierarch...