ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,732, issued on April 15, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Mechanism of obtaining up-to-date network inventory reliably and optimally" was invented by Mukesh Babu Palavalasa (Ontario, Canada), Swaminathan Seetharaman (Chennai, India), Vidya Raghunathan (Chennai, India), Lakshmi Eswaran (Chennai, India), Yves Beauville (Mortsel, Belgium) and Ranjitha Barike Raghava (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node may transmit a configuration message to at least one network device of a plurality of network devices, the configuration message including updated configuration information for t...