ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,674, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Connecting service level outputs to orchestration inputs" was invented by Viktor Mats Emanuel Leijon (San Jose, Calif.), Arghya Mukherjee (Acton, Mass.) and Ian James Wells (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This technology defines an envelope of a set of constraints to impose a network characteristic. A function is created to form a combined set of envelopes to configure resources for use in the network. A path is discovered from a first state to a second state based on the combined set of envelopes. A set of service descriptors configures...