ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,432, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Hypothetical configuration analysis" was invented by Mary Diane Swift (Rochester, N.Y.), Irene Lizeth Manotas Gutierrez (White Plains, N.Y.) and Jonathan D. Dunne (Dungarvan, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment for dynamically tuning system configuration settings across multiple systems using hypothetical configuration analysis. The embodiment may gather input data for a target system, the input data including configuration settings data, a series of configuration setting parameters, and telemetry data. The embodiment may...