US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 8 for "Path tracing applied to internet protocol version 6 (IPV6) fabrics" (Canadian, Belgian, American, Italian, French, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,448, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Path tracing applied to internet protocol version 6 (IPV6) fabrics" was invented by Pablo Camarillo Garvia (Madrid), Clarence Filsfils (Brussels), Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam (L'Aquila, Italy), Jisu Bhattacharya (San Jose, Calif.), Rakesh Gandhi (Ontario, Canada) and Sonia Ben Ayed (Vanves, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for path tracing. For example, a process can include establishing a path tracing session associated with path tracing (PT) probe packets from a PT source node of an IPv6 network fabric. A P...