ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,160, issued on May 19, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Preventing high availability pairs of network devices from sending out duplicate multicast traffic flows" was invented by Anil Raj (Bangalore, India), Tathagata Nandy (Bangalore, India), Subramanian Muthukumar (Bangalore, India) and Srijith Ponnappan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process includes receiving, at a downstream interface of a high availability pair of network devices, a join request. The availability pair of network devices includes a first network device and a second network device. The join request repr...