US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 30 for "Support of virtual network and non-virtual network connectivity on the same virtual machine" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,161, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Support of virtual network and non-virtual network connectivity on the same virtual machine" was invented by Vishal Taneja (Sammamish, Wash.), Abhishek Shukla (Redmond, Wash.), Parag Sharma (Issaquah, Wash.), Xinyan Zan (Sammamish, Wash.) and Kaihua Xu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid state for a virtual machine (VM) in a cloud computing system enables a VM to communicate with other VMs that belong to a virtual network (VNET VMs) while maintaining connectivity with other VMs that do not belong to the virtual network ...