ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,108, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Propagating link aggregation control protocol status to single root input/output virtualization virtual function status" was invented by Franck Baudin (Puteaux, France) and Carlos Goncalves (Grasbrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of propagating link aggregation control protocol status to single root input/output virtualization virtual function status. The method includes obtaining, by a processing device and using a relay agent executing on the processing device, state information from a Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) speaker...