ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,910, issued on March 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Service plane optimizations with learning-enabled flow identification" was invented by Ramanathan Subramanian (Milpitas, Calif.) and Jeslin Antony Puthenparambil (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology relates to a process for optimizing data flow within a computer network. The technology utilizes shared memory and machine learning logic to improve the efficiency of how computing resources are used during a transmission of data packets in the computer network. The shared memory is implemented during the transmission ...