ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,170, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Workflow-based configuration of devices from a cloud SaaS controller" was invented by Jeffrey Yi Dar Lo (Cupertino, Calif.), Dan Talayco (Mountain View, Calif.), Robert Rodgers (Mountain View, Calif.), Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.), TJ Giuli (Mountain View, Calif.) and Pradeep B. Chulliyan (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are devices, systems, methods, and processes for configuring network devices in an on-premises data center from a cloud-based controller using a workflow-based approach. A user can desi...