ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,875, issued on April 14, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Connection establishment using shared certificate in global server load balancing (GSLB) environment" was invented by Ravi Kumar Reddy Kottapalli (Karnataka, India), Sudarshana Kandachar Sridhara Rao (Karnataka, India), Venkata Swamy Babu Budumuru (Andhra Pradesh, India), Dinesh Kumar Kamalakannan (Karnataka, India), Prasanna Kumar Subramanyam (Karnataka, India), Vidya Koteeswaran (Karnataka, India), Prashant Mishra (Karnataka, India) and Santosh Singh (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems for connection establishment in ...