ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,385, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Firewalls in logical networks" was invented by Teemu Koponen (San Francisco), Ronghua Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Pankaj Thakkar (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Martin Casado (Portola Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for configuring a logical firewall in a hosting system that includes a set of nodes. The logical firewall is part of a logical network that includes a set of logical forwarding elements. The method receives a configuration for the firewall that specifies packet processing rules for the firewall. The method identi...