ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,016, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sidero Labs Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Building a mesh virtual private network (VPN) in a hybrid or multi-cloud cluster" was invented by Sean McCord (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, system and methods build a mesh virtual private network (VPN) in a hybrid cloud cluster having a private and a public cloud with connected network nodes. Each node has an operating system (OS) to discover nodes of the VPN by determining IP addresses and port addresses of the nodes from data received from discovery agents. An internal discovery agent of each of the nodes determines IP addresses and port ...