ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,778, issued on March 18, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for deriving network configuration and state for physical network fabric simulation" was invented by Rohith Basavaraja (Bangalore, India), Vinay Prasad V (Bangalore, India) and Sharath Ramamurthy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for collecting configuration data associated with one or more devices of a network, in association with a configuration of the network. The systems and methods include validating the configuration of the network. Validating the configuration includes determining...