ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,247, issued on May 5, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Determining when routes may be advertised by a network device in the context of asynchronous hardware platform processing code responses" was invented by Arseniy Kouzmenkov (Santa Clara, Calif.), Trevor Siemens (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mayukh Saubhasik (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vahab Akbarzadeh (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some disclosed examples involve receiving information regarding a forwarding information base (FIB) sequence number, placing the FIB sequence number into a FIB sequence number queue and assigning the FIB sequence n...