ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,839, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for minimizing data packet loss during traffic migration to a software defined networking (SDN) appliance" was invented by Anish Sagar Narsian (Cupertino, Calif.) and Tao Deng (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing a request to route network traffic between a virtual network device in a virtual network and a bare-metal electronic device using a software defined networking (SDN) appliance, where the virtual network device includes a virtual mac...