US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 9 for "Routing application control and data-plane traffic in support of cloud-native applications" (Minnesota, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,650, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Routing application control and data-plane traffic in support of cloud-native applications" was invented by Vincent Parla (North Hampton, N.H.) and Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using computer networking protocol extensions to route control-plane traffic and data-plane traffic associated with a common application are described herein. For instance, a traffic flow associated with an application may be established such that control-plane traffic is sent to a control-plane node associated with t...