ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,122, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Configuration distribution health evaluation for computing resources" was invented by Arpan Kumar Asthana (Sammamish, Wash.), Imran Sargusingh (Bothell, Wash.), Anastasiia Byvsheva (Seattle), Maxime Caron (Woodinville, Wash.) and Pragati Gupta (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums are disclosed herein for evaluating a health of a configuration distribution. In an example system, at least one health signal is obtained relating to the distribution of a configuration. In one imple...