ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,588, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatic creation of adaptive application aware routing policies on a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN)" was invented by Syed Arslan Ahmed (Bengaluru, India), Raj Venkatesan (Mill Valley, Calif.), Ashish Sood (Cupertino, Calif.), Balaji Sundararajan (Fremont, Calif.), Mahalakshmi Rajaram (Fremont, Calif.), Yogesh Mittal (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ankur Bhargava (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for improving routing policy awareness in a network. The method includes detecting, by a controlle...