ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,107, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to AS0001 Inc. (Carmel, Ind.).

"Systems and methods for configuration locking" was invented by Jonathan J. Thompson (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed. One system includes one or more processing circuits configured to determine at least one action performed on one or more computing systems of at least one entity based on identifying one or more endpoints or interfaces of the one or more computing systems. The one or more processing circuits can identify one or more configuration levels corresponding to the at least one action ...