ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,219, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Zero-trust dynamic discovery" was invented by Saravanan Sampathkumar (San Jose, Calif.), Ajay K. Modi (San Jose, Calif.), Umamaheswararao Karyampudi (Fremont, Calif.), Kamal Bakshi (Livermore, Calif.) and Yousuf H. Khan (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Zero-trust dynamic discovery in provided by identifying a plurality of endpoints, including targets and initiators, connected to a software defined network, wherein the targets are provided on the software defined network according to a network addressable memory standard that lacks a nat...