ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,598, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Implementing a service mesh in the hypervisor" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Westford, Mass.), Francisco Javier Martinez Canillas (Barcelona, Spain) and Alberto Carlos Ruiz Ruiz (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet is received by a hypervisor from a first container, the packet to be provided to a second container, the packet including a header including a first network address associated with the second container. A network policy is identified for the packet in view of the first network address. A second network address corresponding to the second c...