ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,249, issued on April 29, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Virtual router deployment and configuration" was invented by Shailender Sharma (Bangalore, India), Vinod Nair (San Jose, Calif.), Kiran K N (Bangalore, India), Kirankumar Kashinath Raikar (Bangalore, India) and Rakesh Kumar Reddy Varimalla (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, techniques are described for deploying and managing a virtual router having Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) functionality to a computing device. In an example, a method includes creating, by a container orchestration platform executing on a computing dev...