ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,724, issued on July 28, was assigned to Alkira Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for flow classification in multitenant VPN networks" was invented by Shreyas Heranjal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud exchange platform includes policy-based routing. Labeling (or tagging) on a multi-tenant virtual private network (VPN) facilitates recognition of active routes for a flow. The tags can be implemented such that flows are treated as having active routes across a multi-tenant VPN to enable a customer to treat flows as having an identifiable active route through the multi-tenant VPN. Thus, for example, BGP c...