ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,733, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network telemetry capabilities discovery" was invented by Ajit Thyagarajan (Bethesda, Md.), Sajini G (Tamil Nadu, India), Rana Ruhi (Bangalore, India), Arun Kumar Subramanian (Tamil Nadu, India) and Frank Brockners (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for discovering telemetry retrieval capabilities of telemetry devices. The methods include a computing device obtaining telemetry capability related information for one or more telemetry devices and determining one or more telemetry retrieval methods supported by each of the one or mor...