ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,054, issued on July 21, was assigned to VMware Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and method for distributed orchestration management in network function virtualization" was invented by Sujeet Banerjee (Bangalore, India), Sachin Thakkar (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sureshbabu Koyadan Chathoth (Bangalore, India), Sachin Bendigeri (Bangalore, India), Umar Shaikh (Bangalore, India) and Kiran Kumar Cherivirala (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for orchestrating distributed operations to be executed in a distributed computing system with multiple virtual infrastructures uses a distributed operation descriptor to ...