ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,995, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Managing network state for high flow availability within distributed network platform" was invented by Michal Aleksander Karczmarek (Newton, Mass.) and Myron Decker King (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein maintain network state information of network traffic across host machines processing network traffic. A method described herein includes replicating the network state information of packet flows within a distributed caching mechanism over a cluster of host machines. Specifically, the method include...