ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,395, issued on Sept. 23.

"Method and system of securely adding an edge device operating in a public network to an SD-WAN" was invented by Muthukrishnan Manoharan (Chennai, India), Manigandan Elumalai (Chennai, India), Thomas Harold Speeter (San Martin, Calif.), Prakash Kasiviswanathan Parameshwar (Chennai, India) and Stephen Lynn (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide, for a network manager of a secure SD-WAN (software-defined wide-area network), a method of securely adding an edge device, which operates at a branch location in a public network, to the SD-WAN. The method provides, to a...