ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,123, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Distributed network monitoring" was invented by Diman Zad Tootaghaj (San Jose, Calif.), Mehrnaz Sharifian (Granite Bay, Calif.) and Puneet Sharma (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and corresponding method are provided determining a consumed computing capacity of a first networking device exceeds the threshold for total capacity for processing monitoring data for a monitoring metric. An optimization engine determines a second networking device with unused computing capacity sufficient for processing the monitori...