ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,861, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Lightweight path maximum transmission unit for wireless multicast overlay" was invented by Amine Choukir (Lusanne, Switzerland), Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland), Pascal Thubert (Roquefort-les-Pins, France), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Ashish Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Yi Xu (Dublin, Calif.) and Araz Yagubov (Ecublens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques to address a lack of path maximum transmission unit discovery in the context of, e.g., the control and provisioning of wireless access poi...