ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,855, issued on March 31, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network intent orchestration in enterprise fabrics" was invented by Sharmishtha Upadhyay (Fremont, Calif.), Manish Jiwansingh Mehra (Los Altos, Calif.), Abhishek Vijay Kulkarni (San Jose, Calif.), Balaji Sundararajan (Fremont, Calif.), Upendar Surabhi (Fremont, Calif.), Bhairav Dutia (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ankur Bhargava (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Basavaraju Halappa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for optimizing configuration management in SD-WAN networks. The techniques may enable op...