ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,167, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Automated and streamlined configuration for multi-functional network devices" was invented by Joseph Baniqued (San Jose, Calif.), Piyush Agarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Vaishali Pandya (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain examples, a method includes receiving, at a cloud management service, telemetry information and other device information from a network device; determining a device function based on the telemetry information and the other device information; determining a location at which the network device ...