ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,837, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for updating remote databases via flooded packet fragments" was invented by Antoni B. Przygienda (Comano, Switzerland), John G. Scudder (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Vishnu Pavan Kumar Beeram (Hyderabad, India), Shraddha Hegde (Bangalore, India), Anthony Joseph Li (Los Altos, Calif.) and Jonathan C. Barth (Collegeville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed computing device may include (1) a storage device configured to store a database that identifies states of nodes included in a network and (2) circuitry configured to ...