US Patent Issued to VMware on Sept. 9 for "Securing connections between a networking and security controller and distributed agents in a container-based cluster" (Chinese, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,579, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Securing connections between a networking and security controller and distributed agents in a container-based cluster" was invented by Wenying Dong (Beijing), Jianjun Shen (Redwood City, Calif.), Rahul Jain (Jaipur, India), Quan Tian (Beijing), Mengdie Song (Beijing) and Xu Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method for authenticating a network agent deployed in a networking environment. The method generally includes receiving, by a network controller in the networking environment, a name of an external node where the network a...