ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,520, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automated system and method for extracting and adapting system configurations" was invented by John Martin Keagy (San Francisco), Jeffrey Carr (San Francisco) and Paul Lappas (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for extracting and adapting system configuration. The method extracts a first configuration from a first node of a first hosting system. The first node includes several resources for hosting the first configuration. The method analyzes the first configuration in order to determine attributes of the first con...