ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,144, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Managing computing system configurations for security quality of service (QoS)" was invented by Rajesh Poornachandran (Portland, Ore.), Ned M. Smith (Beaverton, Ore.) and Sunil K. Cheruvu (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein includes determining a security quality of service (Qos) profile matching configuration attributes of a first computing system, generating an interdependency flow graph based at least in part on the security QoS profile and the configuration attributes, generating a recommended configuration for the f...