ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,454, issued on May 13, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Support for multi-AZ management appliance networking" was invented by Manoj Krishnan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes for managing computing processes within a plurality of data centers configured to provide a cloud computing environment are described. An exemplary process includes executing a process on a first host of a plurality of hosts. When the process is executing on the first host, a first network identifier associated with the plurality of hosts is not a network identifier of a po...