US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on Sept. 8 for "Policing network traffic on interfaces across multiple processing elements" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,465, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Policing network traffic on interfaces across multiple processing elements" was invented by Denny Hung (Cupertino, Calif.), Bojun Wang (Fremont, Calif.), Ethan Robert Vadai (San Jose, Calif.), Wenjun Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Muhammad Yousuf (San Jose, Calif.), Steven Walter Ulrich (Minneapolis) and Michael Kerby Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may include control plane processing circuitry configured to obtain packet-processing-element-specific policer profiles for applying a traffic policy to a logical inte...