US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 23 for "Namespaces for protected multi-tenant packet processing pipelines" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,830, issued on June 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Namespaces for protected multi-tenant packet processing pipelines" was invented by Christopher Neil Swindle (Biggleswade, Great Britain), Alan David Elder (Welwyn Garden City, Great Britain), Matthew Ian Ronald Williams (London) and Michael Jeffrey Evans (Harpenden, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable multi-stage packet processing pipeline executing in a data plane of a software-defined networking (SDN) network handles data packets according to objects in a directed graph that are programmed using multiple separate na...