US Patent Issued to Nutanix on Feb. 10 for "Method and system for efficient layer-2 forwarding between virtual machines" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,507, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and system for efficient layer-2 forwarding between virtual machines" was invented by Kedar Shrikrishna Patwardhan (Urbana, Ill.), Pratik Vijay Panjwani (San Jose, Calif.), Rutuja Umesh Madhure (Pune, India) and Sunil Khushal Patil (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system is provided that enables efficient layer-2 traffic forwarding. During operation, the computing system can determine that a packet is from a first virtual machine (VM) running on the computing system and destined to a second VM running on a second computing system. ...