ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,966, issued on July 15, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Enabling virtual private network (VPN) support in a virtualized environment" was invented by Keith Edgar Horton (North Bend, Wash.), Alan Thomas Gavin Jowett (Eagle MT, Utah), Andrew Mario Beltrano (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Catalin-Emil Fetoiu (Redmond, Wash.), Guillaume Philippe Adrien Hetier (Redmond, Wash.), Matthew Yutaka Ige (Seattle), Mitchell James Schmidt (Bellevue, Wash.) and Randy Joseph Miller (Newcastle, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are disclosed for enabling virtual private network (VPN) support in a virtua...