ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,057, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Resolving access policies between intent-based network architectures and cloud native architectures" was invented by Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada), David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada), Walter Hulick (Pearland, Texas) and Shannon McFarland (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for expressing, communicating, de-conflicting, and enforcing consistent access policies between an IBN architecture and a Cloud-Native architecture. Generally, network administrators and/or users of a Cloud-Native architecture and an IBN architecture expre...