ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,031, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for optimizing access to cloud resources using preferential localization" was invented by Satish Kumar Mahadevan (San Ramon, Calif.), Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru (San Ramon, Calif.), Pritam Baruah (Fremont, Calif.), Sourav Sen (San Jose, Calif.), Samir Thoria (Saratoga, Calif.) and Ramakumara Kariyappa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Present disclosure includes determining, at two or more gateway nodes that each communicate with a plurality of branch nodes and a plurality of resources, dynamically a path between each ...