ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,762, issued on April 15, was assigned to Pensando Systems Inc..

"Systems and methods to prevent packet reordering when establishing a flow entry" was invented by Sarat Babu Kamisetty (Fremont, Calif.), Krishna Doddapaneni (Cupertino, Calif.) and Parag Dattatraya Bhide (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are method, devices, and systems for establishing a forwarding state for a data flow in a provided datapath by receiving a packet from the data flow that is not installed in the datapath; allocating a flow queue for the data flow; processing the packet to determine a flow entry for the data flow; queueing any su...