ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,543, issued on May 27, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Handling virtual machine migration in a computing system with multi-site stretched gateways" was invented by Abhishek Goliya (Pune, India) and Santosh Pallagatti Kotrabasappa (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of handling traffic for an existing connection of a virtual machine (VM) migrated from a source site to a destination site includes: receiving, at an edge server of the destination site, the traffic, the traffic being associated with a network flow; determining, by the edge server of the destination site, that a stateful serv...