ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,586, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Route aggregation as a service (RaaS)" was invented by Vishwa Nanduri (Ashburn, Va.), Pappula Prabhakar Reddy (Johns Creek, Ga.), Samir Jain (Hyderabad, India), Himanshu Raj (Los Altos, Ga.), Sridharan J (Erode, India), Snehal Kuber Yadav (Hyderabad, India), Aniruddha Parkhi (Bothell, Wash.), Umesh Krishnaswamy (San Jose, Calif.), Paul David Mattes (St. Paul, Minn.), Francesco De Paolis (San Jose, Calif.), Zahira Nasrin (Newark, Calif.), Alap Mehta (Redmond, Wash.) and Annam Srinivas (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example s...