ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,658, issued on June 24, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Global intent-based configuration to local intent targets" was invented by Michael Anthony Brown (McKinney, Texas), Ronald Mark Parker (Manchester, Mass.), Bahareh Sadeghi (Vancouver, Wash.) and Mark Gordon Libby (Groton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for providing intent based network configuration with a two-tiered reconciliation model for adapting a global intent to a plurality of local intent declarations for respective regions. A system for network configuration may include a global reconciliation engine co...