ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,251, issued on June 30, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Structuring IPV6 addresses into bit fields to embed language localization and services" was invented by Jia Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Rohit Mendiratta (Dublin, Calif.) and Jining Tian (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for structuring IP version 6 (IPv6) addresses into bit fields to embed language localization and services information (e.g., and/or other attributes/information) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for structuring IPv6 addresses into bit fields to embed language loca...