ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,488, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Expediting correction of WAN or LAN traffic loss" was invented by Sanjay Kaniyoor Surendra Hegde (Bangalore, India) and Krishna Nataraj Vadde Makkalla (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for monitoring the accessibility to a network from the gateway device involved in a cluster of gateway devices. For example, once the cluster of gateway devices are formed, the system may initiate a cluster heartbeat process. When a response is received from the first gateway and not the second gateway withi...