ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,357, issued on July 29, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Re-simulation of updated SDN connection flows" was invented by Gerald Roy De Grace (Atlanta), Deepak Bansal (Bellevue, Wash.), Rishabh Tewari (Sammamish, Wash.) and Michal Czeslaw Zygmunt (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data flows in a virtualized computing environment are efficiently updated by a hardware-based networking device configured to disaggregate processing of data packets of the data flows from hosts of the virtualized computing environment. A connection table is accessed that defines connection flows for data pack...