ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,182, issued on April 29, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Proactive tunnel configuration computation for on-demand SD-WAN tunnels" was invented by Nithyananda Vishnu K S (Tamil Nadu, India) and Venkata Rajasekharu Athreyapurapu (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques are described for proactively computing configuration information for policy-driven on-demand tunnel creation and deletion between sites in a software-defined networking in wide area network (SD-WAN) environment. In some examples, a controller device is configured to precompute configuration data for...