ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,587, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Trilogy Enterprises Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Configuration mapping using a multi-dimensional rule space and rule consolidation" was invented by Aditya P. Kulkarni (Bangalore, India) and Sourabh Kukreja (Jabalpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration mapping system and method increase the effectiveness of mapping of information from an established product line to a new product offering. In at least one embodiment, the configuration mapping system herein uses configuration mapping rules to map individual product features and entire configurations from established products to a new p...