US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 4 for "IP-based forwarding of bridged and routed IP packets and unicast ARP" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,496, issued on March 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"IP-based forwarding of bridged and routed IP packets and unicast ARP" was invented by Sameer Merchant (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Thomas James Edsall (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Navindra Yadav (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods of forwarding data over an IP network. The methods may include receiving a packet from a source host connected to the IP network, identifying the IP address of a destination host designated in the packet, determining the location on the IP network where the destination host designated by the pack...