US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Nov. 3 for "In-line performance monitoring" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,082, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"In-line performance monitoring" was invented by Scott A. McCulley (Bedford, Mass.), Abilash Menon (Boxborough, Mass.) and Anna Yungelson (Boxborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One function of a communications network, or of nodes in such a network, is to gather data that is useful in assessing network performance, and quantifying metrics of node and/or network performance. Various embodiments disclosed herein improve the ability of nodes and networks to gather such data, and quantify metrics of node and/or network performance ...