ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,921, issued on July 28, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Simplified configuration of network policy" was invented by Anoop Kumaran Nair (Thrikkakara, India), Venkatesh Ramachandran (Bengaluru, India), Rajesh Kumar Ganapathy Achari (Perumbavoor, India), Rajarao Bhagya Prasad Nittur (Milpitas, Calif.) and Krishna Prabhakar (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network management server may provide options via a user interface for configuring a network and a network policy for the network. The network management server may identify values for network attributes based on the user-selected o...