ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,889, issued on April 21, was assigned to Moxa Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Network device and configuration method thereof for static link aggregation" was invented by Lu-Wei Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chang-Yang Kao (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration method for static link aggregation is used for a first network device, wherein the first network device has a link aggregation group with a second network device. The configuration method includes receiving at least one packet sent by the second network device via at least one candidate port; determining a priority of each port of the at...