ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,657, issued on June 24, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Automating provisioning of configuration templates" was invented by Aaditya Dharampurikar (Indore, India), Rahul Gupta (Indore, India), Abhishek Singh (San Mateo, Calif.), Biplav Kumar (Tokyo) and Ashutosh Das (Indore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provisioning of day-1 configuration templates is automated. Users are provided access to a Configuration Template User Interface (UI) for creating configuration templates. Input is received on the Configuration Template UI to create the configuration templates. A trigger is received by a configuration manager to...