ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,518, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Physically distributed control plane firewalls with unified software view" was invented by Jyotirmaya Swain (Bangalore, India), Padam Krishnani (Bangalore, India), Swapnil Tapadia (Bangalore, India) and Harshil Jain (Udaipur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include techniques for processing transactions via a computer system interconnect with a distributed firewall. The distributed firewall includes separate firewalls for various initiators of transactions and separate firewalls for various targets of those transactions. As a result,...