ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,602, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Integrated service mesh control plane management" was invented by Abdallah Mashargah (Santa Clara, Calif.), Eric Dale Williams (Champaign, Ill.), Prasad Chigurupati (Fremont, Calif.) and Vinay Pande (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes an integrated management method to manage a service mesh data plane over a network fabric. The method includes determining at least one service mesh data plane policy for a microservice of a service mesh. The method further includes sending, over the network fabric, the at least one ...