ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,121, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Distributed source network address translation (SNAT) enabled LEAF" was invented by Erez Jordan Gottlieb (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and processing systems for the effective management of network traffic and facilitating data forwarding within distributed computing environments. Network components may be configured to amalgamate the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) with Source Network Address Translation (SNAT) or network address port translation (NAPT) technologies to facilitate dynamic notification of network address acc...