ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,783, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Arista Networks, lnc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Unified network entity" was invented by Justin Costa-Roberts (San Francisco), Charles Yixuan Ding (Foster City, Calif.) and Ilwon Seo (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network entity aggregation system may obtain different information for entities of a network from various sources of network entity information. The network entity aggregation system may generate a list of unified network entities including a corresponding record for each unified network entity. Unified network entity information and/or aggregated network information of ...