ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,366, issued on July 1, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detection of continuous replacement of hosts on ports of network devices" was invented by Shalini Kaleeswaran (Bengaluru, India), Ronak Upadhyay (Bengaluru, India) and Aaranya Prasad (Lucknow, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting when continuous session replacement is occurring on a port at a network device, such as ports configured in a single host mode. One or more continuous session replacement actions may be taken when such continuous session replacement is detected, including notifying a user or disabling the port...