ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,124, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Subscription-based sustainable network administration" was invented by Prakash C. Jain (Fremont, Calif.), Sanjay K. Hooda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Kabiraj Sethi (Fremont, Calif.) and Vinay Saini (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for optimizing energy efficiency in a network utilizing a control plane or other network administration device or software suite. The control plane continuously monitors end-to-end network paths and collects real-time data about network topology, traffic patterns, and connect...