ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,335, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Redundant management network access" was invented by Sudharsan Dhamal Gopalarathnam (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to establish a redundant communication pathway to a management network. In at least one embodiment, the redundant communication pathway is established by creating a virtual interface using a network device, and using the virtual interface to communicate with the management network via a management port of a second network device, and a connection between a first data port of the netw...