ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,389, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Safety net engine for machine learning-based network automation" was invented by Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France), Vinay Kumar Kolar (San Jose, Calif.), Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland) and Pierre-Andre Savalle (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device obtains data regarding routing decisions made by a machine learning-based predictive routing engine for a network. The device determines, based on the data regarding the routing decisions, a behavior of the machine learning-based predi...