ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,020, issued on March 3, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Great Britain).
"Endpoint computer configuration management" was invented by Ryan Elliot Mills (Bubwith, Great Britain) and Jonathan Francis Caine (Abingdon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises storing a policy type having a plurality of device settings for a plurality of endpoint computers; assigning a reference key to a device setting of the plurality of device settings, the reference key corresponding to a subset of endpoint computers of the plurality of endpoint computers; notifying the subset of the endpoint computers of the policy type; querying th...