US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Feb. 18 for "Mechanism to provide customer VCN network encryption using customer-managed keys in network virtualization device" (Virginia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,558, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Mechanism to provide customer VCN network encryption using customer-managed keys in network virtualization device" was invented by Nachiketh Rao Potlapally (McLean, Va.), Pradeep Vincent (Bothell, Wash.) and Jagwinder Singh Brar (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network interface card, such as a SmartNIC, is used to provide encryption, such as network encryption virtual function (NEVF), for a virtual machine, so that a customer can control network keys in a virtual cloud network. The NEVF includes a memory device (e.g., SRAM)...