ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,408, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Network configurations for cloud storage systems" was invented by Michal Davidson (Beit Shemesh, Israel), Shoham Levy (Pardes Hana-Karkur, Israel) and Matthew P. Jean (Shirley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide configuration of cloud systems by detecting a request that specifies virtualized networking and storage resources for a requested cloud system. A network infrastructure payload is generated that specifies the requested virtualized networking resources. The payload is updated with a virtualized networking configuration ...