ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,229, issued on April 8, was assigned to ALKIRA INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Global alert management" was invented by Sudarvannan Sivakumar (Milpitas, Calif.), Sanchit Lodha (San Jose, Calif.), Santosh Kumar Dornal (San Ramon, Calif.), Veera Raghavendra Prasad Ravinutala (San Ramon, Calif.) and Bharath Chakravarthy (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system that includes a plurality of regional cloud exchange platforms coupled to a distributed alert triaging engine. A system can include a first regional cloud exchange platform and a second regional cloud exchange platform, each of which includes a regional cl...