ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,538, issued on May 27, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Deploying network security services in a virtualized computing system" was invented by Pierluigi Rolando (San Marcos, Calif.), Subramanyam Manuguri (Saratoga, Calif.), Raju Koganty (San Jose, Calif.), Yuxiao Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Akhila Naveen (Campbell, Calif.), Mani Prasad Kancherla (Cupertino, Calif.), Srinivas Ramaswamy (Dublin, Calif.), Jayakrishnan Chathu (San Jose, Calif.), Krishna Chaitanya Bandi (Pflugerville, Texas) and Hui Zheng (Great Neck, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of packet processing in a host cluster of a virtualize...