ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,467, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"RPD event storm mitigation" was invented by Anand Kumar Goenka (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access network can include a plurality of remote nodes connected to a principal controller. The principal controller can experience an event storm when one or more of the plurality of remote nodes report an access network event at the same or substantially the same time. One or more remote nodes can mitigate such an event storm at the principal core by delaying by an event reporting delay the reporting of the access network event to the princi...