ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,915, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Ethernovia Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Protocol independent data unit forwarding" was invented by Brian Arnold Petersen (San Francisco), Roy T. Myers Jr. (Morgan City, Calif.), Darren S. Engelkemier (Menlo Park, Calif.), Hossein Sedarat (San Jose, Calif.), Ramin Shirani (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Tom Quoc Wellbaum (San Jose, Calif.) and Poon-Kuen Leung (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for protocol independent data unit forwarding. A packet forwarding system receives a data unit comprising a header byte string vi...