ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,748, issued on March 25, was assigned to Gigamon Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic modification of traffic monitoring policies for a containerized environment" was invented by Saritha Palnati (Fremont, Calif.) and Naveed Cochinwala (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of automatic and dynamic environment discovery and policy adaptation for a containerized environment is disclosed. A plurality of traffic monitoring policies for acquiring and monitoring data traffic transmitted between one or more components of a containerized environment are accessed. The containerized environment includes a plurality of softw...