ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,835, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Resource optimization in multicast network environments" was invented by Tathagata Nandy (Karnataka Bangalore, India) and Chethan Chavadibagilu Radhakrishnabhat (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource optimization processor is disclosed for inclusion in peer routers. The resource optimization processor performs a method for resource optimization of the routers. The method includes disabling an inter-switch link (ISL) between peer routers and monitoring downstream links between a primary router and downstream devic...