ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,497, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Internet protocol (IP) switch-based analytics management" was invented by Harsha Bharadwaj (Bangalore, India), Ayan Banerjee (Fremont, Calif.) and Ramesh Sivakolundu (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for performing Internet Protocol (IP) switch-based Storage Area Networks (SANS) analytics management. An example method is performed by an IP switch. The method includes identifying information associated with Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe)/Transport Control Protocol (TCP) Protocol Data Units (PDUs)...