ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,702, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fleet management adapters for data collection agents" was invented by Pavan Krishna Nimmagadda (Milpitas, Calif.), Phani Krishna Devavarapu (Chandler, Ariz.) and Walter Theodore Hulick Jr. (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method herein comprises: registering, by an orchestration service agent, with a central management device to receive a corresponding configuration for the orchestration service agent, wherein the central management device receives a registration from each of a plurality of orchestration service agen...