US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 17 for "Apparatus and methods to perform lattice routing" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,480, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods to perform lattice routing" was invented by David Maluf (Mountain View, Calif.), Maik Guenter Seewald (Nuremberg, Germany) and Pradeep Kumar Kathail (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for lattice routing across a plurality of routers. An example method can include receiving, by a first router of a lattice including a plurality of routers, an Internet Protocol packet including a source Internet Protocol prefix and an index number, where the plurality of route...