US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 23 for "Symmetric routing in virtualized networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,686, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Symmetric routing in virtualized networks" was invented by Chirag Wighe (Milpitas, Calif.) and Samrat Ganguly (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein relate to source-based symmetric routing of network traffic in virtual networks. In particular, a source of network traffic in the virtual network is equipped with a routing table that causes the source of the network traffic to route the network traffic symmetrically across zones of the virtual network."

The patent was filed on Jan. 30, 2024, under Application No. 18/427,447....