US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on June 24 for "Default data state in routing control functions" (Irish, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,688, issued on June 24, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Default data state in routing control functions" was invented by David Cronin (Dundalk, Ireland), Sharad Birmiwal (Burnaby, Canada) and Rutger Antal Beltman (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure defines an "unset" data state for attributes used in RCF functions. An attribute is deemed to be unset when it has not been set via an assignment statement in an RCF function or in an execution environment outside of the RCF execution environment. The present disclosure describes mechanisms for processing expressions in an RCF function...