ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,204, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Connectivity for virtual private label clouds" was invented by Eden Grail Adogla (Seattle) and Thomas Werner Kuehnel (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for facilitating connectivity to vPLCs created in a CSP-provided infrastructure in a region. Within the CSP-provided infrastructure in a region, when the destination of a packet is determined to be an endpoint associated with a particular vPLC, the packet is tagged with information related to the particular vPLC. The vPLC-related information for the particular vPLC can include...