ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,489, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network embedded framework for distributed network analytics" was invented by Ludwig Alexander Clemm (Los Gatos, Calif.), Yegnanarayanan Chandramouli (Bangalore, India), Saileshwar Krishnamurthy (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shashidhar Srinivasa (Bangalore, India), Wojciech Dec (Amsterdam) and Ashwin Pankaj (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network analytics controller is established in a network. The network includes a plurality of nodes. A plurality of network analytics agents is established; each agent at a node of the network. Network analy...