ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,268, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to F5 Inc. (Seattle).

"Methods for controlling access to shared configuration in a role-based, multi-admin centralized or distributed system and devices thereof" was invented by Sanjay Jain (San Jose, Calif.) and Swapnil Mhatre (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, network traffic management apparatuses, central management devices, and network traffic management systems that control access to configuration data in a distributed system are illustrated. With this technology, a set of configuration data is stored in a first data structure an...