ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,468, issued on March 24, was assigned to VeloCloud Networks LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Route filtering for clusters in multi-regional large scale deployments with distributed gateways" was invented by Arun Kumar Srinivasan (Waterloo, Canada), Navaneeth Krishnan Ramaswamy (Chennai, India), Sumit Mundhra (Burnaby, Canada), Saravanan Kandasamy (Coimbatore, India) and Balaji Shanmugam (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for using route filtering to relay routes between members of hub router clusters in an SD-WAN to reduce redundant route notifications to route reflectors (...