ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,228, issued on June 10, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for deploying third-party applications on a cluster of network switches" was invented by Karthik Krishnamurthy (Chennai, India), Pawan Kumar Singal (Milpitas, Calif.), Balaji Rajagopalan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mihai Lazar (Ontario, Canada) and Dhanunjayareddy Madhana (Guntur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide automated, lightweight, and centralized implementations for distributing and securely managing the lifecycle of containerized third-party applications on a cluster of network switches that typically hav...