ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,147, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Adaptive cloud-native service chaining" was invented by Vincent E. Parla (North Hampton, N.H.) and Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a computing resource network to send a packet through a processing flow (e.g., a service chain) according to an order of processing workloads (e.g., services) included in the processing flow, configured as an optimized service chain. In some examples, the computing resource network may include a policy evaluation engine configured to determine the best probabilistic ...