ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,812, issued on March 11, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Adaptive service metering on ports in a link aggregation group" was invented by Ashish Gulati (Paschim Vihar, India), Sumit Hans (Faridabad, India), Gagan Garg (Gurgaon, India) and Jayant Bhardwaj (Bijwasan, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for adaptively re-adjusting meter rates of processor cores of a multi-core processor having ports grouped in a Link Aggregation Group (LAG) are provided. A method, according to one implementation, includes a step of obtaining a metering allocation setting for a service on each of a plurality of processor...