ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,629, issued on July 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network agent for reporting to a network policy system" was invented by Hai Vu (San Jose, Calif.), Shih-Chun Chang (San Jose, Calif.), Varun Malhotra (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shashi Gandham (Fremont, Calif.), Navindra Yadav (Cupertino, Calif.), Allen Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Praneeth Vallem (San Jose, Calif.) and Rohit Prasad (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology relates to a network agent for reporting to a network policy system. A network agent includes an agent enforcer and an agent controller. The agent enforce...