ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,361, issued on June 10, was assigned to Ribbon Communications Operating Co. Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Methods, apparatus and systems for cloud native application multi-factor load balancing" was invented by Tolga Asveren (Bordentown, N.J.), Shivakumar Venkataraman (Bengaluru, India), Amol Sudhir Gogate (Pune, India), Justin Hart (Purton, Great Britain) and Ashish Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to communications methods and apparatus for session load balancing among session processing entities. An exemplary method embodiment includes the steps of receiving from a first device at a ...