ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,477, issued on March 4, was assigned to KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for recycling background traffic in a test environment" was invented by Thomas Ameling (Woodland Hills, Calif.) and Razvan Ionut Stan (Agoura Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer readable media for recycling background traffic in a test environment are disclosed. One example method occurs at a test system implemented using at least one processor, the method comprising: generating background packets usable as background traffic in a data center switching fabric u...