ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,656, issued on June 10, was assigned to A10 SYSTEMS INC (Lowell, Mass.).

"Intelligent network slicing and policy-based routing engine" was invented by Apurva N. Mody (Chelmsford, Mass.), Bryan Crompton (Lowell, Mass.), Junaid Islam (San Jose, Calif.), David Simpson (Springfield, Va.) and Dap Minh Tran (Lowell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more aspects of the present disclosure are directed to network optimization solutions provided as software agents (applications) executed on network nodes in a heterogenous multi-vendor environment to provide cross-layer network optimization and ensure availability of network resource...