US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Feb. 3 for "Generating route distinguishers for virtual private network addresses based on physical hardware addresses" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,739, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Generating route distinguishers for virtual private network addresses based on physical hardware addresses" was invented by Ganesha Hebbale Venkatasubbaiah (Bangalore, India) and Nikhil Kumar Bansal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for improving route advertisements. In one example, a method includes generating, by a network device, a virtual private network address comprising a route distinguisher value and a network address associated with a compute node, the route distinguisher value based on a lay...