ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,308, issued on June 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Protecting non-HTTP and TCP/UDP applications in a ZTNA/webVPN environment" was invented by George Mathew Koikara (Bangalore, India), Pruthvi Panyam Nataraj (Bangalore, India), Naveen Gujje (Bangalore, India), Sujith Rs (Bangalore, India) and Pranav Balakumar (Coimbatore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and architecture are described for protecting non-http and TCP/UDP applications in a zero trust network access (ZTNA)/web virtual private network (VPN) environment by establishing a secure communication channel between a native applicatio...