US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 17 for "Techniques for loop-free multi-path inter-domain routing in communications networks" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,854, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Techniques for loop-free multi-path inter-domain routing in communications networks" was invented by Jose Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Aceves (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for routing in communications networks include receiving, at a first border node in a first autonomous system (AS) from a neighbor node in a second AS, a first routing control packet for a route to a destination node. The packet indicates a first ordered list of ASes involved in the route in an order each AS is traversed along the route. ...