ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,746, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Configuring connectors that enable an application to communicate with computing assets of different types" was invented by Sourabh Satish (Fremont, Calif.), Atif Mahadik (Fremont, Calif.) and Govind Salinas (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for automatically identifying and configuring application connectors relevant to an IT environment by obtaining and analyzing data reflecting activity within the IT environment. The identification of types of assets within the IT environment may be based on analyzing a field v...