US Patent Issued to The MITRE on Feb. 24 for "Computer network platform for routing and virtualization" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,967, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Computer network platform for routing and virtualization" was invented by Jared R Burdin (Westford, Mass.) and Peter Malinovsky (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for instantiating virtual network functions (VNFs). In some embodiments, a computer network infrastructure device comprises a purpose-built router (e.g., a packet routing and forwarding device) and a virtual machine host. The virtual machine host instantiates VNFs and identifies a first function to be executed on...