ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,391, issued on July 1, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Generating hybrid network activity records" was invented by Keith Eric Amidon (Los Altos, Calif.), Jeevan Madhu Kamisetty (San Jose, Calif.) and Debabrata Dash (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for generating hybrid network activity records. A stream of packet data is received. A flow in the stream of packet data is identified. Deep packet inspection operations are performed on a first subset of packets in the flow to extract a first set of data. Flow stat operations are performed ...