ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,652, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method for identifying and managing QUIC connections for middleboxes" was invented by Rajvardhan Somraj Deshmukh (San Jose, Calif.), Nancy Patricia Cam-Winget (Mountain View, Calif.) and James W. Kasper (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for managing QUIC connections. The techniques include identifying a first QUIC connection between a first and second device. Determining, from the connection, a first IP address and port number of the first device, a second IP address and port number of the second device, and a fir...