US Patent Issued to Siemens Canada on Sept. 8 for "Layer 3 router and method for routing PRP frames" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,452, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Siemens Canada Ltd. (Ontario, Canada).

"Layer 3 router and method for routing PRP frames" was invented by Kien Tran (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a Layer 3 router and method for routing PRP frames. A first frame is received at one or more ports of the Layer 3 router. A PRP suffix of the first frame, a source MAC address of the first frame, and a Redundancy Control Trailer of the first frame are identified. The first frame is forwarded to a routing subsystem of the Layer 3 router, and a second frame including a source IP address is received from the routing s...