ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,744, issued on March 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Fabric availability and synchronization" was invented by Ajoy C. Siddabathuni (Santa Clara, Calif.), Bjorn Dag Johnsen (Oslo, Norway) and Raghunath Shenbagam (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include implementing fabric availability and synchronization (FAS) agents within a fabric network. In one example, a first FAS agent executing on a first network device may receive, from a second network device, a command to modify a configuration of a second network device. The first FAS may upgrade th...