ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,269, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to UNDERLINE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (New York).

"Configuration of a private network segment" was invented by Jason S. White (Acton, Mass.), Harikrishna Rajagopalan (Pflugerville, Texas), Kyle Dale Glaeser (Jonestown, Texas) and Robert W. Thompson (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that comprises an IP-routed interregional distribution network, each comprised of two or more IP-routed regional distribution networks (RDN), each of which employs two or more user-network interfaces (UNIs), each including (a) a physical network including any device capable of operating at network layers 2 and 3...