US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Nov. 11 for "Enabling online insertion and removal of a physical interface module of a line card of a network device" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,457, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Enabling online insertion and removal of a physical interface module of a line card of a network device" was invented by Eswaran Srinivasan (Fremont, Calif.), Vineet Sharma (Mullanpur, India), Sandip Kumar Ghosh (Bangalore, India), Venkata Durga Pradeep Kumar Kasula (Bangalore, India) and Swamy Sadashivaiah Renu Kananda (Tracy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network device may cause instantiation of a base container associated with a line card of the network device. The network device may cause, based on causing the i...