ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,179, issued on May 6, was assigned to SPLUNK Inc. (San Francisco).

"Deployment orchestrator in a cloud based service for customer enterprises" was invented by Krishnan Ananthesweran (San Jose, Calif.), Nishanth Reddy Pinnapareddy (Rancho Cordova, Calif.), Hao Zhan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Gaurav Chawla (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployment orchestrator is provided that manages package deployments at different hierarchical levels. Each hierarchical level is associated with a particular type of resource object. The deployment orchestrator creates different of resource objects, each associated with a different hie...