ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,783, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for enforcement readiness verification" was invented by Gabriel J. Fontenot (Richardson, Texas), Paul Mach (San Jose, Calif.), Tony Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Brijeshkumar Ravindrakumar Shah (Cary, N.C.), Furong Ma Gisiger (San Francisco), Edwin Gonzalez Urzua (Mexico City), Apurva Chhajed (San Jose, Calif.), Jana Radhakrishnan (San Jose, Calif.) and Amandeep Singh (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and processes for determining enforcement readiness in a workload protection solution are described herei...