US Patent Issued to VMware on March 24 for "Using PNICS to perform firewall operations" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,489, issued on March 24, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Using PNICS to perform firewall operations" was invented by Pierluigi Rolando (San Marcos, Calif.), Peng Li (Fremont, Calif.), Boon S. Ang (Saratoga, Calif.), Guolin Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Wenyi Jiang (Fremont, Calif.), Yuxiao Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Raju Koganty (San Jose, Calif.), Subrahmanyam Manuguri (San Jose, Calif.), Kok Pyng Liew (Cincinnati), Jin Heo (Los Altos, Calif.) and Srinath Suriyanarayanan Thillaisthanam (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a novel method for offloading firewall operations from a host co...