ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,699, issued on July 28, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Gateway migration based on resource consumption" was invented by Gaurav Jindal (Pune, India), Chandan Ghosh (Bengaluru, India) and Neeraj Mantri (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a novel method for configuring edge routers in a first network. The method configures on a first compute node of the first network (1) a first higher-level edge router and (2) a set of lower-level edge routers. Each lower-level edge router is configured for a different set of subnetworks defined in the first network and is connected to an external seco...