ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,591, issued on July 8, was assigned to Aviatrix Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"System for scaling network address translation (NAT) and firewall functions" was invented by Xiaobo Sherry Wei (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a network device may be adapted to operate within a virtual private cloud where network address translation (NAT) is performed through virtual machines and each network address translation is handled differently by a different NAT control logic unit. The network device features one or more hardware processors, and a memory that stores at least a plurality of netw...