ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,676, issued on July 22, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Methods for micro-segmentation in SD-WAN for virtual networks" was invented by Navaneeth Krishnan Ramaswamy (Chennai, India) and Vaibhav Kulkarni (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for micro-segmenting traffic flows in a software defined wide area network (SD-WAN). At a first edge forwarding node of a first multi-machine site in the SD-WAN, the method receives, from a particular forwarding element, a first packet of a packet flow originating from a second multi-machine site that is external to the SD-WA...