ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,652, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Refresh of the binding tables between data-link-layer and network-layer addresses on mobility in a data center environment" was invented by Girija Raghavendra Rao (Chennai, India), Victor Manuel Moreno (Carlsbad, Calif.), Marc Binderberger (San Jose, Calif.), Lev Shvarts (San Jose, Calif.) and Vrushali Ashtaputre (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assisting communication of a source host upon movement from a first Data center (DC) to a second DC is disclosed. The method includes identifying that the source host has moved from t...