ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,157, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods providing serverless DNS integration" was invented by Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.), Ian Wells (San Jose, Calif.) and David Delano Ward (Somerset, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a DNS request, notifying a serverless orchestrator system of data associated with the DNS request, provisioning a function on a serverless function node based on the DNS request, notifying a load balancer regarding the serverless function node, providing a response to the DNS request and routing an API reques...