US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Nov. 11 for "Adding third party hardware to network devices" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,555, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Adding third party hardware to network devices" was invented by Vyasraj Satyanarayana (Bangalore, India), Eswaran Srinivasan (Fremont, Calif.), Dmitry A. Shokarev (Mountain View, Calif.) and Parag Dubey (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example network device includes one or more hardware resources; a physical interface for receiving a hardware component; a memory; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: receive the hardware component that has been coupled to the physical interface of the network device...