ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,716, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Comparing network topology, states, and configuration at different time instances" was invented by Rohit Prabhakar Sardesai (Bengaluru, India), Tathagata Roy (Bangalore, India), Bhumireddy Ujvala (Bangalore, India), Ajay Vishwanath Bhande (Bangalore, India) and Sriram Srinivasa Murthy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network management system for orchestrating a network is provided. During operation, the system generates a graph representing the network. A respective vertex corresponds to an entity in the network, and...