ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,754, issued on April 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optimized protected segment-list determination for weighted SRLG TI-LFA protection" was invented by Manish Gupta (Karnataka, India) and Peter Psenak (Bratislava, Slovak Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating a first shortest path tree for traffic routing in a network, the first shortest path tree identifying a corresponding shortest path from the network node to other nodes in the network and generating a second shortest path tree for traffic routing after removing an element from the network. The second shortest path tree...