ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,690, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Connectivity between logical router pods" was invented by Yu Ying (Cupertino, Calif.), Yong Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Pankaj Gupta (Fremont, Calif.) and Sreeram Kumar Ravinoothala (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for implementing a logical router of a logical network at a first Pod executing on a first node of a Kubernetes cluster to implement data message forwarding for the logical router. The method receives a data message for processing by the logical router. The method determines that the data message requires...