ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,500, issued on March 24, was assigned to ALKIRA INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-tenant virtual private network address translation" was invented by Shreyas Heranjal (San Jose, Calif.) and Robin James (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "What is disclosed is providing a multi-tenant virtual private network (VPN) to a plurality of tenants, wherein tenant VPNs are associated with respective private networks; identifying a first subnet that makes up a portion of a first private network associated with a first tenant of the plurality of tenants; translating the first subnet into a first multi-tenant VPN address translation (M...