ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,512, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Aviatrix Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Controller-based traffic filtering and address modification" was invented by Nicolas Delecroix (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Saad Mirza (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In communication with components of a cloud platform, namely a software-defined network constructed to overlay at least one public cloud network, a controller features a virtual processor and a data store. The data store includes network address translation (NAT) processing logic configured to determine whether a control plane message from tenant resources is associated with...