ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,379, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Managing bandwidth in fibre channel over internet protocol communication channels" was invented by Clea Zolotow (Dublin), Stephen Robert Guendert (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) and Gavin Charles O'Reilly (Kilcoole, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems include managing bandwidth in Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP) communication channels. A method includes monitoring traffic demand at an FCIP communication channel and, in response to an anticipated period of throughput demand on the FCIP communication channel, reallocating physical throughput band...