US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on April 22 for "Throughput for a single VPN connection using multiple processing cores" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,166, issued on April 22, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Throughput for a single VPN connection using multiple processing cores" was invented by Abhishek Gupta (Redmond, Wash.), Shivakumar Thangapandi (Redmond, Wash.) and Vikrant Arora (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein increase the throughput of a single VPN connection by creating multiple outbound and/or inbound Security Associations (SAs). For instance, two or more different SAs can encrypt outbound data packets to be sent over the VPN connection to a remote device. Moreover, two or more different SAs...