ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,855, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Centralized service discovery management" was invented by Swetha Nandyalam Suresh (Karnataka, India), Shanmuga Mari Shanmugam (Karnataka, India), Mahesh Venkateshwaran (Karnataka, India), Shreekanth Hiremath (Karnataka, India) and Rakesh Kadur Ramesh (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a centralized service discovery management (CSDM) system and method for distributing service discovery records to access points (APs). The CSDM system receives a service discovery record from a source AP o...