ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,678, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Providing DNS service in an SD-WAN" was invented by Eyal Zohar (Shimshit, Israel), Chen Dar (Magshimim, Israel), Aran Bergman (Givatayim, Israel), Alex Markuze (Rosh HaAyin, Israel), Israel Cidon (San Francisco) and Igor Golikov (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method of some embodiment provides DNS service for an SD-WAN. The method receives a DNS request for a domain name (e.g., a FQDN) from one of the compute nodes connected to the SD-WAN (e.g., from a branch site or datacenter site, or a machine of a remote user). The method selects a par...