ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,676, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Software development kit for integrating applications and cognitive networks" was invented by Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland), Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France), Pierre-Andre Savalle (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Michal Wladyslaw Garcarz (Cracow, Poland) and Eduard Schornig (Haarlem, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device provides a software development kit that includes a set of functions for inclusion in an application developed using the software development kit to communicate with a cognitive network serv...