US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 17 for "Edge connectivity gateway" (Washington, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,516, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Edge connectivity gateway" was invented by Prasidh Arora (Seattle), Manoj Kumar Ampalam (Suwanee, Ga.), Nikhil Mhatre (Kirkland, Wash.), Barath Hassan Venugopal (Woodinville, Wash.) and Arun Ramachandran (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed method facilitates communications between an edge device and a cloud-based service component via an enterprise proxy without configuring the enterprise proxy to allow access to a service domain associated with the cloud-based service component. The method includes receiving, at a fir...