US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 13 for "Tenant configuration state extraction and variance detection" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,582, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Tenant configuration state extraction and variance detection" was invented by Marcio Costa Jr. (Bothell, Wash.), Neil Evan Lydick (Bothell, Wash.), Hua Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Artur Perez (Redmond, Wash.) and Adrian Kyle Wirpel (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving, at a server device, a request to extract configuration settings of a source tenant organization from a data store; in response to the request at the server device, recursively accessing the configuration settings of the source tenant organiz...