ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,897, issued on April 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Canada).

"Dynamic IP routing in a cloud environment" was invented by Jagwinder Singh Brar (Bellevue, Wash.), Shahab Zahedi (Winter Spring, Fla.), Myron Decker King (Arlington, Mass.) and Ravi Sastry Aysola (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides dynamic routing for data flows to a customer network hosted in the cloud. A plurality of compute instances may share a common virtual IP address. Each of the plurality of compute instances may advertise information to a respective network virtualization device (NVD). The ...