ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,427, issued on July 29.

"Network configuration of top-of-rack switches across multiple racks in a data center" was invented by Jason Anthony Lochhead (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Top-of-rack (TOR) switches are connected to a network fabric of a data center. Each TOR switch corresponds to a respective rack of the data center, and is configured to provide access to the network fabric for computing devices mounted in the respective rack. A request is received, from a client device via a portal, to configure a first rack of the data center. Configuration data is received, from the client device, for a first virtual netwo...