ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,742, issued on March 25, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Storing configuration data changes to perform root cause analysis for errors in a network of managed network devices" was invented by Prasad Miriyala (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Henkel (Saratoga, Calif.) and Iqlas M. Ottamalika (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example application programming interface (API) server device that distributes configuration data to managed network devices includes one or more processing units implemented in circuitry and configured to receive configuration data to be deployed to at least one of the man...