ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,781, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"On-path dynamic policy enforcement and endpoint-aware policy enforcement for endpoints" was invented by Alberto Rodriguez Natal (Mountain View, Calif.), Hendrikus G. P. Bosch (Aalsmeer, Netherlands), Fabio Maino (Palo Alto, Calif.), Lars Olaf Stefan Olofsson (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Jeffrey Napper (Delft, Netherlands) and Anubhav Gupta (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for locally applying endpoint-specific policies to an endpoint in a network environment. A network device local to one o...