US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 28 for "Network address translation" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,189, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Network address translation" was invented by Duncan Roweth (Bristol, Great Britain) and Keith D. Underwood (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain implementations, a method includes receiving, by a network interface controller (NIC), a request for inter-process communication associated with a sending process of a distributed application. The request includes a logical network address for a destination process of the distributed application. The method includes executing, by the NIC, a network address translation ...