ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,808, issued on April 1, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Automated application service deployment across multiple environments" was invented by Jacopo Pianigiani (Cupertino, Calif.), Carlos Parada (Lisbon, Portugal), Ignacio Suarez Navas (Madrid), Julio Carrasco Pinto (Albacete, Spain), Luca Tosolini (Trezzano sul Naviglio, Italy), Christian Thrun (Oberhausen, Germany) and Francis Xavier Antonio Santana (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, a device comprising a processor and a memory may be configured to perform various aspects of the techniques described in this disclosure....