US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 17 for "Systems and methods for managing multi-path network traffic" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,845, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for managing multi-path network traffic" was invented by Saravanan Ramasamy Subramanian (Bothell, Wash.), Sukanta Sarkar (Redmond, Wash.), Wagner Ferreira Mota Da Silva (Monroe, Wash.), Luis Irun-Briz (Sammamish, Wash.), Nikish Bhat (Bellevue, Wash.) and Somesh Chaturmohta (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Virtual connections are established between remotely connected servers in a network. The virtual connections include (1) a terrestrial path, as well as (2) a satellite path, for routing the flow of packe...