US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 9 for "System and method for fault recovery in spray based networks" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,508, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for fault recovery in spray based networks" was invented by Prashant Ranjan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for fault detection and recovery over a network. A value of a set of values is stored in packets transmitted during a data transaction between a source and destination. The value corresponds to ports used by one or more switches in the path between the source and destination. The destination includes the value in an acknowledgement pac...