ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,394, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Distributed storage of packet transformation information in forwarding hardware" was invented by Jonathan Paul Beecroft (Bristol, Great Britain), Anthony M. Ford (Bristol, Great Britain), Trevor Alan Jones (Bristol, Great Britain), Andrew S. Kopser (Seattle), Joseph Orth (Fort Collins, Colo.), David Charles Hewson (Bristol, Great Britain) and Abdulla M. Bataineh (Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The efficient storage of transformation information in a switch is provided. A respective port of the switch can include a memory ...