ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,309, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Efficient split management in an MC-LAG" was invented by Venkatachalam Swaminathan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device is provided. During operation, the network device receives control information associated with a control protocol running on a multi-chassis link aggregation group (MC-LAG) from a first link coupling a second network device of the MC-LAG. The network device determines whether the second network device is operational via a second link, which is separate from the first link. The network de...