ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,385, issued on June 3, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Mapping internet protocol (IP) addresses to IP over ethernet subscriber identifiers" was invented by Venkatesh Padebettu (Bangalore, India), Rivu Santra (Bangalore, India) and Rajesh Katragadda (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network device may receive one or more indications of one or more internet protocol (IP) addresses. The network device may determine that the one or more IP addresses are associated with an IP over Ethernet (IPoE) subscriber. The network device may generate, based at least in part on dete...