ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,235, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sustainable resource optimization in infrastructure lifecycle management" was invented by Carlos Pignataro (Cary, N.C.), Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.), Marcelo Yannuzzi (Nuvilly, Switzerland) and Ayan Banerjee (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and processes for sustainably reallocating resources based on within a plurality of computing nodes of a network, such as a managed network are described herein. Each computing node may be configured to transmit infrastructure data to an infrastructure monitor ...