US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for routing data packet in a unified wide area network" (California, Washington, Georgia, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,147, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for routing data packet in a unified wide area network" was invented by Paul David Mattes (Saint Paul, Minn.), Umesh Krishnaswamy (San Jose, Calif.), John Michael Abeln (Bellingham, Wash.), Sonal Kothari (San Jose, Calif.), Paul-Andre C. Bissonnette (Seattle), Pappula Prabhakar Reddy (Johns Creek, Ga.) and Himanshu Raj (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a network for routing data packet in a unified wide area network (WAN) is provided. The method includes encapsulating a data packet by an ing...