ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,000, issued on July 15, was assigned to PLUME DESIGN INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Computerized systems and methods for adaptive device protection" was invented by Paul White (San Carlos, Calif.), Susmita Nayak (Fremont, Calif.), Kyle McGill (San Mateo, Calif.), Naveen Ancha (Milpitas, Calif.), Derek Lownsbrough (Kelowna, Canada) and Alexey Gadalin (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods that provide a computerized device management framework that adaptively determines and applies security and configuration parameters to a device on a first network, and enables the adaptive application of such p...