ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,784, issued on July 22, was assigned to Red Hat Israel Ltd. (Raanana, Israel).

"Network beacon for hypervisor installations" was invented by Michael Kolesnik (Netanya, Israel) and Mordechay Asayag (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for configuring components added to a network is disclosed. The method includes determining, by a host, that network identifying information of a plurality of networks to which the host is connected is unknown, listening for messages on the plurality of networks to obtain network identifying information for respective networks, receiving a message on a network of the plural...