ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,049, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and method for managing lifecycles of network functions in multiple cloud environments using declarative requests" was invented by Debankur Chatterjee (Bangalore, India), Venu Gopala Rao Kotha (Bangalore, India), Gurivi Reddy Gopireddy (Bangalore, India), Sachin Bendigeri (Bagnalore, India) and Paarth Dassani (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and computer-implemented method for managing lifecycles of network functions in multiple cloud environments uses declarative requests to execute lifecycle management operations for network funct...