ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,075, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Credit-based network management service messaging" was invented by Krishna Mohan Elluru (Karnataka, India), Balaji Sankaran (Karnataka, India) and Suresh Rukmangathan (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network management service controls the flow of messages (e.g., management messages) with a credit-based system. The network management service may be a cloud-based network management service. A message credit quantity for a managed network device is calculated by the network management service based on multiple criteria. ...