ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,765, issued on March 25, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).

"System and method to perform automated steering of network traffic over a least latency path" was invented by Faisal Hashmi (Richmond, Texas), Aundra Browning (Fuquay Varina, N.C.), Amit Khanna (Edison, N.J.), Barnabas Erdei (Budapest, Hungary) and Sangeetha V. Nair (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method perform automated steering of network traffic over a least latency path. A service request module receives traffic parameters from a user, a process train module generates a service identification (ID) in response t...