ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,665, issued on July 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Differentiated multihomed route advertisement for multipath TCP" was invented by Ronak Desai (Oakland, Calif.), Yibin Yang (San Jose, Calif.) and Rajagopalan Janakiraman (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method comprises determining, by a first networking device, that a first subflow of a multipath transmission control protocol (MPTCP) connection has been established between a first internet protocol (IP) address of a first computing device and an IP address of a second computing device, wherein the first computing ...