ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,613, issued on July 22, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Avoiding traffic flooding for known unicast traffic when an EVPN is inter-connected to a data plane VXLAN in all-active mode" was invented by Wen Lin (Andover, Mass.), Vrishabha Sikand (Lexington, Mass.), Kranthi Kumar Katam (San Jose, Calif.), Selvakumar Sivaraj (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Moo Jin Jeong (San Jose, Calif.), Jagadish N. Grandhi (Telangana, India) and Pratibha Goel (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a system including an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) core network and a VXLAN data plane, a first gatew...