US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 1 for "Network access control for devices in a software defined access (SDA) fabric" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,203, issued on April 1, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network access control for devices in a software defined access (SDA) fabric" was invented by Eric Levy Abegnoli (Valbonne, France), Pascal Thubert (La Colle sur Loup, France) and Patrick Wetterwald (Mouans Sartoux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first address resolution request may be received by a first access switch from a first device and the address resolution request may be resolved by the first access switch with a central database of a network. Then a second address resolution request may be sent to a sensor by the first access switch ...