ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,813, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Packet processor memory reservation" was invented by Anirudh Ramesh Iyer (Bangalore, India), Lucas Maxime Frere (Cork, Ireland), Pavan Krishnamurthy (Bangalore, India) and Satish Kumar Selvaraj (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may include packet processor memory circuitry and processing circuitry coupled to the packet processor memory circuitry. The processing circuitry may receive a set of network traffic processing features for which data is to be stored in the packet processor memory and may receive memory reservat...