ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,813, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Cloud network reachability analysis for virtual private clouds" was invented by Hui Liu (San Ramon, Calif.), Leslie Choong (Mountain View, Calif.), Hongkun Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Shishir Agrawal (Mountain View, Calif.), Raj Yavatkar (Saratoga, Calif.), Tianqiong Luo (San Clara, Calif.), Gargi Adhav (San Jose, Calif.) and Steffen Smolka (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, from a user device, a reachability request requesting a reachability status of network traffic from a first VM of a VPC to a second VM of the VPC. The...