ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,736, issued on March 4, was assigned to MUSARUBA US LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for secure configuration of a compute device" was invented by Arvind Srinivasa Babu (Bengaluru, India) and Arthur S. Zeigler (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to securely configure an endpoint. Example apparatus disclosed herein include memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to access a certificate at an ePolicy orchestrator, the certificate including pri...