ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,495, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Integrated gateway service" was invented by Michael Henkel (Saratoga, Calif.) and Pranav Cherukupalli (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, techniques are described for a SDN architecture system that implements an integrated gateway service. In an example, network controller comprises processing circuitry and memory and is configured to: configure a virtual network in a cluster of nodes of a compute infrastructure, the cluster of nodes managed in part by the network controller; receive a manifest for a gateway service instance t...