ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,248, issued on May 20, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Multiple levels of logical routers" was invented by Srinivas Neginhal (Belmont, Calif.) and Ronghua Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a managed network for implementing a logical network for a tenant. The managed network includes a first set of host machines and a second set of host machines. The first set of host machines is for hosting virtual machines (VMs) for the logical network. Each of the first set of host machines operates a managed forwarding element that implements a first logical router for the tenant logi...