ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,431, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TXONE NETWORKS INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Fault tolerance methodology to detect and recover network uplink fault automatically" was invented by Yung-Wen Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kin Leung Ling (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network security device receives a traffic flow through an input port from a source device and forwards the traffic flow through a primary output port to a primary switch. The network security device switches from the primary output port to a backup output port when determining that the traffic flow fails to be forwarded by the primary switch to a desti...