US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 1 for "Zero downtime servicing of datapath services in software defined networks" (Washington, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,589, issued on July 1, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Zero downtime servicing of datapath services in software defined networks" was invented by Avijit Gupta (Redmond, Wash.), Rishabh Tewari (Sammamish, Wash.), Deepak Bansal (Bellevue, Wash.), Weixi Chen (Berkeley, Calif.), Venkata Satish Katta (Bellevue, Wash.), Alfonso de la Morena (Austin, Texas), Arun Jeedigunta Venkata Satya (Seattle), Zexuan Zhao (Kirkland, Wash.) and Kaixiang Miao (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High availability network services are provided in a in a virtual computing environment comprising a plurality of ...