US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on Aug. 25 for "Flexible device interface generation" (Canadian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,741, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Flexible device interface generation" was invented by Zeyad Essam R Aburajab Tamimi (Vancouver, Canada), Paul Martin Fallon (Mountain View, Calif.), Ravil Baizhiyenov (Burnaby, Canada) and John Peach (Maidenhead, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may include a number of ports each having one or more physical lanes. These physical lanes of the port may be used to implement interfaces through which the network device can communicate internally and/or with external equipment. Control circuitry on the network device may flexib...