ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,920, issued on July 29, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for distributing SD-WAN policies" was invented by Stefan Olofsson (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Ijsbrand Wijnands (Leuven, Belgium), Hendrikus G. P. Bosch (Aalsmeer, Netherlands), Jeffrey Napper (Delft, Netherlands) and Anubhav Gupta (Freemont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a router includes one or more processors and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media include instructions that, wh...