ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,052, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Controller identification during onboarding of a device or group of devices using user intent input" was invented by Ajit Sasidharan (Cary, N.C.) and Reshmi Raj Chittette Rajappan (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is technology that provides an easier and more convenient method for onboarding network devices by allowing the use of user input (e.g., voice commands) to input network device and network controller configurations. The technology can receive user input and determine the intent of the user from the user input. The technology ...