US Patent Issued to VMWare on March 25 for "Forwarding packets in multi-regional large scale deployments with distributed gateways" (Indian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,777, issued on March 25, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Forwarding packets in multi-regional large scale deployments with distributed gateways" was invented by Arun Kumar Srinivasan (Waterloo, Canada), Navaneeth Krishnan Ramaswamy (Chennai, India), Sumit Mundhra (Burnaby, Canada), Saravanan Kandasamy (Coimbatore, India) and Balaji Shanmugam (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for forwarding packets through an SD-WAN. To facilitate the forwarding of packets between first and second regions of the SD-WAN, said first and second regions having respective f...