ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,164, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"High availability of host data path with tunneling in software defined networks" was invented by Avijit Gupta (Redmond, Wash.), Deepak Bansal (Bellevue, Wash.), Kaixiang Miao (Redmond, Wash.), Rishabh Tewari (Sammamish, Wash.), Weixi Chen (Berkeley, Calif.), Guohan Lu (Redmond, Wash.), Lihua Yuan (Redmond, Wash.), Shahzad Iqbal (Redmond, Wash.), Prince Sunny (Redmond, Wash.), Arun Jeedigunta Venkata Satya (Redmond, Wash.), Zexuan Zhao (Redmond, Wash.) and Venkata Satish Katta (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are de...