US Patent Issued to Tailscale on May 20 for "Management of communications for overlapping subnets using IPv6 addressing" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,114, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tailscale Inc. (Toronto).

"Management of communications for overlapping subnets using IPv6 addressing" was invented by Denton E. Gentry Jr. (San Carlos, Calif.), Bradley J. Fitzpatrick (Seattle), Maya Kaczorowski (San Francisco) and David Crawshaw (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage communications for a network with overlapping IPv4 addressing subnets. In one example, a method of operating a gateway includes receiving a first packet that encapsulates a second packet, the second packet comprising an IPv6 destination addres...