ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,052, issued on May 5, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network device deployment recorder" was invented by Malu Jayachandran (Andoor Po, India), Shriti Gupta (Kolkata, India), Li Sun (Austin, Texas), Vaishnavi V (Bangalore, India), Marco Mazzini (Seville, Spain) and Alberto Cervasio (Cuorgne', Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hot pluggable or swappable devices that are easily removed and replaced by a network operator may be monitored for faults and utilized in post-deployment use. Device specific local monitoring and storing of operational parameters during a deployment of a device in a network is describ...