ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,805, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Multi-level multi-deployment software model" was invented by Arul Meiyappan Kannappan (Ottawa), Tejas Sanjeev Panse (San Jose, Calif.), Arun Vithal Mahajan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Harsha Hulageri (Bengaluru, India) and Shivin Gopalani (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: receiving a request for a new stack that is to comprise a plurality of components at a plurality of levels of the new stack, wherein the request indicates the supporting components; in response to the request: interacting with a cloud services provider to p...