ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,228, issued on April 7, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and a method for distributing information" was invented by David Snowdon (Sydney), Alexander Peter Webster (Sydney) and Thomas Dejanovic (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for distributing information. In one or more embodiments of the invention, the method includes receiving, at a replicator, a single data stream originating from a data source, wherein the single data stream comprises a first plurality of data units from the data source; replicating, by the replicator, the single ...