ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,366, issued on June 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for communication network load balancing" was invented by Etgar Israeli (Modiin-macabim-reut, Israel), Elad Naor (Kibbutz Alonim, Israel), Guy Caspary (Caesarea, Israel) and Mel Tsai (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, networks, systems, methods, and processes for load balancing are described herein. A device can receive a stream of data packets. The device may generate a load balancing vector based on the stream of data packets. The device can encode the load balancing vector and can further apply substitution ...