ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,472, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optimized agent deployment for datacenter monitoring" was invented by Raghu Rajendra Arur (New Delhi) and Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device determines a plurality of routes from one or more sources in a localized network domain to external addresses via a plurality of border leaf nodes of the localized network domain. The device selects, based on a specific performance test from a particular source of the one or more sources to a particular endpoint with a corresponding external addr...