US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on May 19 for "Group-based network access management" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,122, issued on May 19, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Group-based network access management" was invented by Anubhav Gupta (Navi Mumbai, India), Venkata Ramchandra Murthy Jonnalagadda (Fremont, Calif.), Rajesh Kumar Ganapathy Achari (Perumbavoor, India), Venkatesh Ramachandran (Bengaluru, India), Anoop Kumaran Nair (Thrikkakara, India), Rajarao Bhagya Prasad Nittur (Milpitas, Calif.) and Krishna Prabhakar (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Client devices in the same device group may use the same group-specific key to perform a key exchange operation with access point(s) to obtain netw...