ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,169, issued on July 15, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Intent-based enterprise data management for simplified data governance" was invented by Kaouther Abrougui (Fremont, Calif.), Hazim Hashim Dahir (Wake Forest, N.C.), Ahmed Khattab (San Jose, Calif.), Kumarappan Palaniappan (San Jose, Calif.) and Firas Fawzi Ahmed (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each module of a plurality of modules receives intent metadata associated with a data product instance of a data mesh. Each module corresponds to a unique data governance category of a plurality of data governance categories and a request asso...