ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,645, issued on July 8, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Aggregation of select network traffic statistics" was invented by David Anthony Hughes (Los Altos, Calif.) and Pawan Kumar Singh (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are network information collectors, methods, computer-readable media, and systems for generating network traffic statistics. For example, the network appliance is to receive, via a network, an accumulating map from a network appliance device, wherein the accumulating map comprises a condensed and aggregated version of web traffic flow informatio...