US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on April 29 for "Networking apparatus and a method for networking" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,252, issued on April 29, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Networking apparatus and a method for networking" was invented by Matthew Chapman (Coogee, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is networking apparatus comprising: a plurality of communications ports that interface with external computing systems to channel physical layer signals; a dynamic routing module that interconnects communication ports with discrete reconfigurable data conduits, each of the data conduits defining a transmission pathway between the communications ports for physical layer signals. Each of the plurality of communicat...