ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,088, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Transparent, on-demand route determination and delegated authorization in a large-scale, decentralized service mesh" was invented by Brian Rochford (Ovens, Ireland) and Andrea Roggerone (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can intercept, by a kernel-space application of a node of nodes, a call from a microservice that is directed to a remote endpoint that is external to a decentralized service mesh architecture, wherein the kernel-space application operates in a kernel space of the node, and wherein the microservice executes in a user space of t...