US Patent Issued to VMware on Oct. 14 for "Protocol switching and secure sockets layer (SSL) cross-wiring to enable inter-network resource connectivity" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,491, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Protocol switching and secure sockets layer (SSL) cross-wiring to enable inter-network resource connectivity" was invented by John Kilroy (Portsmouth, N.H.), Patrick Peralta (Arlington, Mass.) and Glenn Bruce McElhoe (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of protocol switching and cross-wiring to enable inter-network connectivity are described. For example, a transporter system including a transporter server and a transporter client can securely connect applications to resources in differing networked environments (e.g., clouds and/or data cent...