US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Nov. 4 for "Providing a network firewall between a virtualized environment and a host processing system" (Washington, Utah, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,941, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Providing a network firewall between a virtualized environment and a host processing system" 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: "A network firewall is disclosed that operates between a virtualized environ...