US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 7 for "Supplemental DNAT for communication within overlapping IP address space in a private network" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,159, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Supplemental DNAT for communication within overlapping IP address space in a private network" was invented by Varun Kalyan Anantharaman (Milpitas, Calif.), Gopikrishna Kannan (Redmond, Wash.), Jashwanth Reddy Gangula (San Jose, Calif.), Suma Venkata Amara (Cupertino, Calif.) and Girish Manoharlal Motwani (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may receive, at a firewall, a data packet destined to a conflicting private IP address of the first private subnetwork and the second private subnetwork within the private network, ...