ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,249, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Dragonfly routing with incomplete group connectivity" was invented by Edwin L. Froese (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for managing a data communication within a multi-level network having a plurality of switches organized as groups, with each group coupled to all other groups via global links, including: at each switch within the network, maintaining a global fault table identifying the links which lead only to faulty global paths, and when the data communication is received at a port ...