US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Sept. 23 for "Configuring application availability using anycast addressing" (North Carolina, California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,327, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Configuring application availability using anycast addressing" was invented by Jacob Rameen Chitsaz (Raleigh, N.C.), Jayant Jain (Cupertino, Calif.), Brian Russell Kean (Cincinnati), Uttam Ramesh (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mingfei Peng (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anycast addressing is utilized to support the connection of multiple application connectors fronting an application(s) to a network element and anycast routing of network traffic destined for the application(s). When an application is indicated for onboarding in a te...