ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,855, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Testing media topology for collaboration sessions" was invented by Chidambaram Arunachalam (Apex, N.C.), Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.) and Gonzalo Salgueiro (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device may obtain a media topology of nodes involved in a collaboration session. The device may cause each of a plurality of probes to be provisioned to a corresponding node of the nodes involved in the collaboration session to perform a test of a corresponding segment of the media topology, and each of the plurality of ...