ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,779, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated connectivity to cloud resources" was invented by Balaji Sundararajan (Fremont, Calif.), Madhuri Kolli (San Jose, Calif.), Giorgio Valentini (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Venkatraman Venkatapathy (Fremont, Calif.), Avinash Ashok Kumar Chiganmi (Fremont, Calif.) and Vivek Agarwal (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology pertains to receiving a tag associating at least one routing domain in an on-premises site with at least one virtual network in a cloud environment associated with a cloud service provider. The present tec...