ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,464, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Versa Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for prediction based traffic engineering at a network device" was invented by Sridhar Vishwanathan Iyer (Fremont, Calif.), Sudhir Kuntal (Bengaluru, India) and Akshay Adhikari (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system for operating a network device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for operating a network device involves generating a traffic engineering decision in response to applying a traffic engineering rule to a predicted performance metric, and implementing a traffic engineering action at the...