ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,095, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Supporting roaming in ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) fabric" was invented by Alton Lo (Fremont, Calif.), Kumar Narayanan (Saratoga, Calif.), Venkata Ramchandra Murthy Jonnalagadda (Fremont, Calif.) and Alex Nichol (Henley-on-Thames, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a network device is provided. The method can include detecting a first host device that is communicatively coupled to a first interface or port of the network device, identifying a first host profile identifier corresponding to a first class of devi...