US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 25 for "Forceful flow termination for accelerated networking" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,792, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Forceful flow termination for accelerated networking" was invented by Ahmed Abdelsalam (Redmond, Wash.), Osman Nuri Ertugay (Bellevue, Wash.), Zachary Noel Libby (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Narayanan Ravichandran (Redmond, Wash.), Rohan Kandi (Bellevue, Wash.), Milan Dasgupta (Seattle), Anshuman Verma (Redmond, Wash.), Lok Chand Koppaka (Bothell, Wash.) and Harish Srinivasan (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forcefully terminating a flow includes identifying, by a hardware accelerator, a flow entry in a flow table corresp...