ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,418, issued on July 1, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Per-application virtual private networking" was invented by Arjun Kochhar (Atlanta), Utkarsh Singh (Karnataka, India), Huan Wang (Denver) and Amit Kumar Yadav (Marietta, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are approaches for providing per-application tunnel access, such as virtual private network (VPN) access, in LINUX based systems. In response to an application requesting a network connection, a process identifier of the application and an inode identifier representing a socket for the network connection are obtained. Then, a kernel space map is updated...