ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,326, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Distributed transit gateway" was invented by Gang Tang (Nanjing, China), Lei Bao (Wuxi, China), Ming Shuang Xian (Wuxi, China) and Goutham Kondapavuluru (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method, system, and computer program product in which a cross virtual private cloud (VPC) network connectivity is configured, wherein one or more policies have been defined by entities in the VPC. Policy changes are monitored, and based on the one or more policies, an adding of endpoints or topology information from a source ...