ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,485, issued on March 24, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Adaptive buffering in a distributed system with latency/adaptive tail drop" was invented by Francois Labonte (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device includes a switching system for directing packets between ingress ports and egress ports of the network device. The network device also includes a switching system manager that makes an identification of a state change of a virtual output queue of the switching system; and performs an action set, based on the state change, to modify a latency of the virtual output queue to m...