ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,619, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Scalable creation of connections" was invented by Balaji Sundararajan (Fremont, Calif.), Kiran Desai (Santa Clara, Calif.), Biju Mathews Mammen (Mountain House, Calif.), Basavaraju Halappa (San Jose, Calif.) and Zaheer Aziz (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of creating a connection between a controller and plurality of edge devices may include reading, by a data plane development kit (DPDK) of the controller, a plurality of packets having a common destination port from the plurality of edge devices, and demuxing, by the DPDK, a num...