US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Feb. 17 for "Network configuration verification in computing systems" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,455, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Network configuration verification in computing systems" was invented by Karthick Jayaraman (Kirkland, Wash.), Ryan Andrew Beckett (Redmond, Wash.) and Nikolaj Skallerud Bjorner (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques of network configuration verification are disclosed herein. One example process includes, upon receiving a query to determine whether a packet from a first endpoint is reachable to a second endpoint in a virtual network, identifying a network path between the first endpoint to the second endpoint in a netw...