US Patent Issued to CLOUDFLARE on Sept. 23 for "Establishing and using a tunnel from an origin server in a distributed edge compute and routing service" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,366, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).

"Establishing and using a tunnel from an origin server in a distributed edge compute and routing service" was invented by Dane Orion Knecht (Austin, Texas), John Graham-Cumming (London), Dani Grant (San Francisco), Christopher Philip Branch (Romford, Great Britain) and Tom Paseka (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge server of a distributed edge compute and routing service receives a tunnel connection request from a tunnel client residing on an origin server, that requests a tunnel be established between the edge server and the tunnel client. T...