ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,310, issued on June 16, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cross-domain data blob retrieval for on-premises networks" was invented by Arup Raton Roy (Burnaby, Canada), Ryan Izard (Seneca, S.C.), Kanzhe Jiang (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Muhannad Alabwah (Burnaby, Canada) and Vincent Lam (New Westminster, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enabling the retrieval of data blobs by a network management system from an on-premises network are provided. In certain embodiments, these techniques leverage external storage (i.e., storage that resides outside of the on-premises network) to enable this da...