US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Sept. 29 for "Network address translation (NAT) hole punching over software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) for link quality selection of virtual private networking (VPN) tunnels" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,314, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Network address translation (NAT) hole punching over software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) for link quality selection of virtual private networking (VPN) tunnels" was invented by Shangwei Duan (Vancouver, Canada), Wang Xi (Vancouver, Canada), Yong lin Han (Surrey, Canada) and Pin Yi Kuo (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outbound packet is detected from a client device of a first spoke destined to a client device of a second spoke over SD-WAN through a hub connecting the first and second spokes with IPSec tunneling. The first spoke ...