ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,311, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enhancing interior gateway protocol functionalities for local and remote peering with virtual private network based fabric" was invented by Massimiliano Ardica (Valbonne, France), Lukas Krattiger (Pleasanton, Calif.), Peter Psenak (Bratislava, Slovak Republic) and Lester C. Ginsberg (Mount Hermon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for ensuring that a service node selects a local leaf node to reach remote destinations by leveraging reverse metric to inform the active service node of the topology of the leaf nodes. The methods ...