ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,416, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Infrastructure for enforcing per-application target service level parameters in multi-domain networks" was invented by Fabio R. Maino (Palo Alto, Calif.), Saswat Praharaj (Pleasanton, Calif.), Alberto Rodriguez-Natal (Leon, Spain) and Pradeep K. Kathail (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an infrastructure for enforcing target service level parameters in a network. In one example, a network service level agreement (SLA) registry obtains one or more input service level parameters for at least one service offered by an applicati...