US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 29 for "Distributed path computation and centralized path enforcement in computer networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,382, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed path computation and centralized path enforcement in computer networks" was invented by Vijay Kumar Devendran (Fremont, Calif.), Rajagopalan Janakiraman (Cupertino, Calif.), Sathiskumar Segamalai Murugesan (Tracy, Calif.) and Kirankumar Meda (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for enabling distributed path computation and centralized path enforcement in a computer network used to implement a software application. In some cases, the disclosed techniques include using a central controller that...