ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,914, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Network service discovery" was invented by Michael Henkel (Saratoga, Calif.), Mahesh Sivakumar (Milpitas, Calif.) and Richard Roberts (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for a computing system comprising processing circuitry having access to a storage device, the processing circuitry configured to: generate, by a network controller executing in a software defined network (SDN), an advertisement in a first network cluster executing within a container orchestration platform of the SDN, wherein the advertisement confor...