ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,050, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Methods, devices, and systems to generate a reduced configuration in a microservice architecture" was invented by David Miedema (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving user-generated input. The user-generated input initiates a request for a first reduced configuration associated with a group of services to a client computing device associated with a user. Further embodiments can include obtaining a merged configuration associated with the group of services, obtaining staged system data associated wit...