ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,323, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to K. Mizra LLC (Cape Coral, Fla.).

"Application wire" was invented by Ping Pan (San Jose, Calif.) and Richard D. Gitlin (Little Silver, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, at a node associated with a multiprotocol label switching system (MPLS) network, identifying information associated with an application flow based on one or more unencapsulated packet headers of the application flow or based on an ingress data stream that includes the application flow. The method further includes, in response to identifying the information, and based on stored data that maps application flo...