US Patent Issued to Intel on May 12 for "Technologies for network path and topology management" (American, Irish, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,030, issued on May 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies for network path and topology management" was invented by Amar Srivastava (Bangalore, India), Kshitij A. Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.), Cristian Florin Dumitrescu (Shannon, Ireland) and Christian Maciocco (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to techniques for determining optimal routing paths for computing devices in a network, including selecting an optimal gateway among a number of available gateways. The techniques include gathering data regarding characteristics of a network, including gateways and network access...