ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,768, issued on March 25, was assigned to Catchpoint Systems Inc. (New York).

"Method and system to reduce a number of border gateway protocol neighbors crossed to reach target autonomous systems" was invented by Alessandro Improta (Massa, Italy), Luca Sani (Lucca, Italy), Dritan Suljoti (Parkland, Fla.) and Sergey Katsev (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed method and system increase routing efficiency by identifying a set of candidate Autonomous Systems (ASes) able to reduce average AS distances towards a set of target ASes. Starting from a list of Routing Information Base (RIB) snapshots and a set of...