ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,405, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Comparing network usage against digital model personas" was invented by Jay Kemper Johnston (Raleigh, N.C.), David C. White Jr. (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Jeffrey Dominick Jackson (Holly Springs, N.C.), Magnus Mortensen (Cary, N.C.), Matthew R. Engle (Plano, Texas) and Ryan Alan MacLennan (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management server measures network activity of user devices to determine activities of the users associated with each user device. The management server generates digital model personas corresponding to the users based on on...