ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,347, issued on June 17, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Monitoring and policy control of distributed data and control planes for virtual nodes" was invented by Harshit Naresh Chitalia (Mountain View, Calif.), Travis Gregory Newhouse (Encinitas, Calif.) and Sumeet Singh (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system includes a computing device configured to execute a plurality of virtual machines, each virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines configured to provide control plane functionality for at least a different respective subset of forwarding units of a network device, ...