US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on July 28 for "Traffic amplification for testing of a networking device" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,690, issued on July 28, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Traffic amplification for testing of a networking device" was invented by Jason Huselton (Erie, Colo.), Noah Weis (Denver) and Kenton Seward (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for testing network devices for networks with a large traffic load utilizing one or more traffic load amplifiers to amplify the traffic load. The load amplifiers connected to the device may receive packets of an initial traffic load, multiply or copy the received packet, alter the destination address information in the header of the copied packets to g...