ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,471, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic configuration management" was invented by Liang Lu (Hangzhou, China), Qing Wang (Hangzhou, China), Chao Zeng (Hangzhou, China) and Yufan Zeng (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Configuration settings are dynamically distributed from a server to one or more data centers serving cloud-native applications. The server sends a first set of configuration settings to a data center in response to an initialization of an application at the data center. Subsequently, the server sends second sets of configuration settings to the data cente...