ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,738, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Cloud based service for customer enterprises" was invented by Yann Christensen (Hailey, Idaho), Ritika Rasiwasia (Kirkland, Wash.), Kymberly Ann Hines (Kenmore, Wash.), Michael Emery (Whitby, Canada), Fnu Rahul Muralinath (Newark, Calif.), Krishnan Anantheswaran (San Jose, Calif.), Gaurav Chawla (San Jose, Calif.) and Aditya Nagnath Kamble (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a framework for providing a cloud-based service that manages resources in one or more host machines (i.e., nodes) included in a customer enterprise ...