ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,149, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Application specific network telemetry and diagnostics" was invented by Anthony M. Ford (Bristol, Great Britain), Jonathan Paul Beecroft (Bristol, Great Britain), Duncan Roweth (Bristol, Great Britain) and Trevor Alan Jones (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, a method includes identifying, by a NIC of a node where application sender of an application executes, a network data unit for telemetry metadata insertion based on performing a match operation on information associated with the network d...