ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,196, issued on May 19, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Scaling of logical router pods" was invented by Abhishek Goliya (Pune, India), Yu Ying (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yong Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for configuring logical routers of a logical network. The logical routers are implemented in a Kubernetes cluster as a first set of Pods that each perform logical forwarding operations for the logical routers and a second set of Pods that each perform L7 service operations for a respective logical router. From a Kubernetes control plane component, the method recei...