ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,835, issued on May 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Routing traffics having primary and secondary destinations in communication networks" was invented by Kevin Safford (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Victor Ruybalid (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems of routing network containing a set of sources, a primary destination, a set of secondary destinations, and one or more routing elements. A routing element includes an input port, a set of output ports including a primary output port and a set of secondary output ports, and a control unit. The control unit...