ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,278, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Equinix Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Tenant-driven dynamic resource allocation for virtual network functions" was invented by Muhammad Durrani (San Jose, Calif.), Jayanthi Jayaraman (San Jose, Calif.), Syed Hashim Iqbal (San Jose, Calif.), Janardhana Achladi (San Jose, Calif.), Rizwan Jamal (San Jose, Calif.) and John Hanahan (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for tenant-driven dynamic resource allocation in network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI). In one example, an orchestration system is operated by a data center provider for a data center and that ...