ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,623, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"System and method for determining a data flow path in an overlay network" was invented by Harshit Naresh Chitalia (Mountain View, Calif.), Biswajit Mandal (Kanata, Canada) and Anita Kar (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques that include collecting underlay flow data within a network and associating underlay flow data with a source and a destination virtual network to enable insights into network operation and performance. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes...