ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,881, issued on March 31, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Scaling efficiency for internal transport services in distributed network elements" was invented by Ajeet Pal Singh Gill (Fremont, Calif.) and Manish Mehra (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and associated methods outlined herein are directed to improving scaling efficiency for routing devices that service multiple applications through multiple socket interfaces and multiple network segments. In particular, the system aims to reduce memory overhead associated with current methods of network segmentation in Network Stack Instan...