ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,742, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic load adjustment" was invented by Leonardo Rangel Augusto (Burnaby, Canada), Grzegorz Boguslaw Duraj (Vancouver, Canada) and Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for dynamically load balancing traffic based on predicted and actual load capacities of data nodes are described herein. The techniques may include determining a predicted capacity of a data node of a network during a period of time. The data node may be associated with a first traffic class. The techniques may also include determining an a...