US Patent Issued to VMware on Aug. 4 for "Single pane distributed networking and security for bare metal and overlay workloads" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,145, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Single pane distributed networking and security for bare metal and overlay workloads" was invented by Subin Cyriac Mathew (San Jose, Calif.), Chidambareswaran Raman (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mukesh Hira (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a novel method for defining a set of policies for a set of applications executing on a host computer of a software-defined network (SDN). The method configures, on a physical network interface card (PNIC) connected to the host computer, a network adapter to create a logical port that connects ...