ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,322, issued on June 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Malleable routing for data packets" was invented by Clarence Filsfils (Brussels), Peter Psenak (Bratislava, Slovak Republic), Francois Clad (Strasbourg, France) and Jose Antonio Liste (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein enable malleable routing for data packets. For example, in various implementations, a method of routing a type of data packets is performed by a device. In some implementations, the device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In some impleme...