US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on March 17 for "Virtual hardware components" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,987, issued on March 17, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Virtual hardware components" was invented by Alon Pekurovsky (Sacramento, Calif.), Adam G Wiggins (Sydney), Deepak Sebastian (San Francisco), Nicholas Joukhdar (Sydney) and Callum S. Hunter (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual hardware component (VHC) can be instantiated by loading an image that implements the VHC into a programmable device such as a field programmable gate array (FPGA) and installing a corresponding inventory list of parameters according to which the VHC operates. One or more managing agents are automatically invoked i...