ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,149, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Programming static multicast routes inload-balanced networks" was invented by Tathagata Nandy (Bangalore, India) and Anil Raj (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device in a network is provided. During operation, the network device can receive a static multicast route associated with a multicast group and a source of the multicast group. Here, the network device can include a plurality of ingress interfaces, each corresponding to a path via which the network device is reachable from the source. The network devi...