ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,840, issued on March 17, was assigned to KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for link multiplexing and forwarding packets in a test environment" was invented by Radu Manolescu (Bucharest, Romania), Dan George Ciobanu (Bucharest, Romania), Lai Fun Laura Choy (Vancouver, Canada) and Bogdan-Cosmin Chifor (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer readable media for link multiplexing and forwarding packets in a test environment are disclosed. One example method occurs at a network switch comprising a first plurality of ports and a second p...