ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,449, issued on July 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Virtual private cloud network switching" was invented by Maurilio Cometto (Redwood City, Calif.), Mate Ferenczy (Mountain View, Calif.), Sriganesh Kini (Fremont, Calif.), Mohammad Y. Hajjat (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Manoj Sharma (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system includes a plurality of first host machines implementing a public-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the first host machines comprises at least one public-cloud virtual machine (VM) that performs network address translation; and a plurality ...