US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on June 10 for "Supporting overlapping network addresses universally" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,256, issued on June 10, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Supporting overlapping network addresses universally" was invented by Jia Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hao Long (Campbell, Calif.) and Shu Lin (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for supporting overlapping network addresses universally are disclosed. A system, process, and/or computer program product for supporting overlapping network addresses universally includes generating at least two virtual routers for a cloud security service, the at least two virtual routers including a first virtual router and a second virtual router,...