ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,871, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Resource depletion detection and notification in an enterprise fabric network" was invented by Shree Narasimha Murthy (San Jose, Calif.), Sanjay Kumar Hooda (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Sonal Prem Kumar Chhabria (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques that include a network that is configured in the first mode of a reactive mode to respond to a client attempting to access an endpoint of the network by providing information to be sent to a map server and by checking whether at least an IP address associated with the client corresponds ...