US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 4 for "Telemetry collection and policy enforcement using asset tagging" (Canadian, American, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,912, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Telemetry collection and policy enforcement using asset tagging" was invented by Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada), Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Ruben Gerald Lobo (Raleigh, N.C.), Laurent Jean Charles Hausermann (Lyons, France), Maik Guenter Seewald (Nuremberg, Germany) and Daniel R. Behrens (Chardon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, a networking device receives a policy for an endpoint in a network. The policy specifies one or more component tags and o...