ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,740, issued on March 25, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Placement of containerized applications in a network for embedded centralized discovery controller (CDC) deployment" was invented by Balaji Rajagopalan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Pawan Kumar Singal (Milpitas, Calif.), Joseph Lasalle White (San Jose, Calif.), Charles Park (San Jose, Calif.), Ning Zhuang (San Jose, Calif.), Sreejith Sethumadhavan (Fremont, Calif.) and Dhanunjayareddy Madhana (Guntur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method embodiments of centralized discovery controller (CDC) services on a switching network fabric are disclosed. N...