ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,232, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Auto update of sensor configuration" was invented by Navindra Yadav (Cupertino, Calif.), Abhishek Ranjan Singh (Pleasanton, Calif.), Anubhav Gupta (Fremont, Calif.), Shashidhar Gandham (Fremont, Calif.), Jackson Ngoc Ki Pang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shih-Chun Chang (San Jose, Calif.) and Hai Trong Vu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for updating configurations in sensors deployed in multi-layer virtualized environments. In some examples, a system can track information of sensors and collectors i...