US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 24 for "Packet fragmentation prevention in an SDWAN router" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,993, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Packet fragmentation prevention in an SDWAN router" was invented by Avinash Shah (Pleasanton, Calif.), Ganesh Devendrachar (Milpitas, Calif.), Arul Murugan Manickam (San Jose, Calif.), Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru (San Ramon, Calif.), Satyajit Das (Lake Tapps, Wash.) and Pritam Baruah (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for detecting a change in Path Maximum Transfer Unit (PMTU) in a network and initiating a PMTU discovery process. A Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) data packet is generated having enhanced head...