ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,792, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Per-application network performance analysis" was invented by Sandip Shah (Fremont, Calif.), Vlad Hanciuta (Dublin), Sameer Mahajan (Pune, India), Andrii Rykhlivskyi (Limerick, Ireland) and Sundar Bettadahalli (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network traffic analysis device may be configured to receive network performance metrics data for network traffic flows. The network traffic analysis device may further be configured to receive application information for an application indicative of a subset of the network traffic flows belong...