US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Sept. 8 for "Internet protocol security tunnel rebalancer" (Washington, California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,480, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Internet protocol security tunnel rebalancer" was invented by Peter John Hill (Seattle), Surajpal Singh Sandhu (Cary, N.C.), Venkata Koteswararao Anumolu (San Ramon, Calif.) and Aditya Sandeep Sonavane (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for managing secure connections (e.g., tunnels) between different endpoints using a pod of servers. Instead of computing devices connecting to a single server at a service IP address, the connections are spread among the different servers in the pod that can be reached us...