ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,696, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Policy controller for distributed virtualization infrastructure element monitoring" was invented by Harshit Naresh Chitalia (Mountain View, Calif.), Avi K. Patel (San Jose, Calif.), Parantap Roy (Mountain View, Calif.), Travis Gregory Newhouse (Encinitas, Calif.), Sumeet Singh (Saratoga, Calif.) and Neeren Shripad Patki (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for monitoring, scheduling, and performance management for virtualization infrastructures within networks. In one example, a computing system includes ...