ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,834, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Connecting to multiple cloud instances in a telecommunications network" was invented by Austin D. Ritchie (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure involve systems and methods for utilizing Virtual Local Area Network separation in a connection, which may be a single connection, between a customer to a telecommunications network and a cloud environment to allow the customer to access multiple instances within the cloud through the connection. A customer may purchase multiple cloud resource instances from a public cloud environment...