ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,600, issued on April 29, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Establishing multiple security associations in a connection operation" was invented by Adhip Gupta (San Jose, Calif.), Rajagopalan Ammanur (Los Altos, Calif.), Sreedhar Ganjikunta (Cupertino, Calif.) and Uday Srinivasan (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed methods and systems employ an agent to identify data paths between first and second networking devices, such that a data path connects an interface of the first networking device with an interface of the second networking device, each interface being uniquely identified by an a...