ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,837, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Aviatrix Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Management network and method of operation" was invented by Xiaobo Sherry Wei (Santa Clara, Calif.), Praveen Vannarath (Santa Clara, Calif.), Steve Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Cheng Hsiang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method for utilizing private Internet Protocol (IP) addressing for communications between components of one or more public cloud networks. The method features determining whether outbound traffic corresponds to a first type of outbound traffic being forwarded from a cloud instance supported by ...