ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,540, issued on May 27, was assigned to Aviatrix Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Private management of multi-cloud overlay network" was invented by Nicolas Delecroix (Menlo Park, Calif.), Li Yan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Spencer Witkin (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Saad Mirza (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-cloud overlay network for supporting communications between a first public cloud network and a second public cloud network. The overlay network features a management virtual private network, which includes a network load balancing (NLB) component and a controller registered as a target on a port of the NLB compo...