US Patent Issued to Morgan Stanley Services Group on July 8 for "L1 replicator and switch combination" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,678, issued on July 8, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).

"L1 replicator and switch combination" was invented by Michael Gorbovitski (New York), Igor G. Muskatblit (Mountain View, Calif.), Joshua N. Elijah (London) and Holger Grund (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data replication and switching device and method, including a plurality of data communication ports, a management port, at least one replicator respectively associated with the data communication port, a Layer 1 ("L1") switch, and a L1 bypass. At least some data received via the at least one of the plurality of ports can be routed to at le...