US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 17 for "Sustainable networking plane de-energization" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,776, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sustainable networking plane de-energization" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Carlos Pignataro (Cary, N.C.) and Ayan Banerjee (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and processes for sustainably operating a plurality of network planes via de-energization and re-energization is described herein. In many network configurations, a plurality of planes exist that allow for more modular connections in a network fabric. Often, these planes are configured such that each plane is not directly co...