ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,659, issued on July 22, was assigned to Pensando Systems Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for orchestrating network flow tracing within packet processing pipelines across multiple network appliances" was invented by Vijay Srinivasan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sarat Kamisetty (Fremont, Calif.), Krishna Doddapaneni (Cupertino, Calif.), John Cruz (San Jose, Calif.) and Loganathan Nallusamy (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orchestrator can send trace directives to network appliances that indicate a network flow to trace. The network appliances can include packet processing pipelines that each include numerous ...