ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,640, issued on April 29, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for mapping policies to SD-WAN data plane" was invented by Gangadharan Byju Pularikkal (San Jose, Calif.), Einar Nilsen-Nygaard (Kilmarnock, Great Britain), Vivek Agarwal (Campbell, Calif.), Ajeet Pal Singh Gill (Fremont, Calif.), Ravi Sankar Mantha (Bangalore, India) and Saravanan Radhakrishnan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving one or more 5G software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) policies, identifying one or more identity-based policies from the one or more 5G SD-WAN...