US Patent Issued to UpGuard on Jan. 13 for "Differential node configuration for network maintenance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,199, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to UpGuard Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Differential node configuration for network maintenance" was invented by Michael Franz Baukes (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Paul McCarthy (Palo Alto, Calif.), Greg Pollock (San Jose, Calif.), Alan Sharp-Paul (Los Altos, Calif.), Mark Sheahan (Mountain View, Calif.), Taylor Stackpole (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Cheyne Wallace (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operator node is configured to generate a visualization of the configurations of nodes communicatively coupled to the operator node via a network. The operator node scans target nodes in a network ...