ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,678, issued on July 22, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Expansion of packet mirroring functionality" was invented by Rodolfo Jose Piedra Camacho (Cartago, Costa Rica), Alonso Jose Carvajal Rojas (San Francisco, Costa Rica), Eduardo Badilla Ramirez (Heredia, Costa Rica), Jairo Mendez (Tres Rios, Costa Rica), Maksim Nedorezov (Antelope, Calif.) and Scott Arthur Jones (Rocklin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the instant application can provide a system and method for packet mirroring. During operation, the system can determine, at a networking device, whether a packet meet...