US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on July 15 for "Dynamic implementation and tear-down of hardware network address translation pipelines for a dataflow" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,063, issued on July 15, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic implementation and tear-down of hardware network address translation pipelines for a dataflow" was invented by Navdeep Bhatia (Mountain View, Calif.), Sebastiano Borgione (Seattle), Prasanna Parthasarathy (Cupertino, Calif.) and Michael Chih-Yen Wang (British Columbia, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operations include: identifying a first dataflow associated with a particular communications protocol; evaluating the first dataflow to determine that the first dataflow meets a hardware-based Network Address Translation (NAT) usage criteri...