ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,618, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Command to trigger diagnostic port activation" was invented by Pasquale A. Catalano (Wallkill, N.Y.), Michael James Becht (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Christopher J Colonna (Ossining, N.Y.) and Stephen Robert Guendert (Murfreesboro, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiving network device obtains a command built to enable a control program to trigger activation of diagnostics on one or more ports of one or more network devices. The command includes an indication of the one or more ports on which diagnostics is to be activated. The receiving n...