US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on June 3 for "Systems and methods for securing network paths" (Canadian, Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,292, issued on June 3, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for securing network paths" was invented by Clarence Filsfils (Brussels), Reshad Rahman (Ottawa) and Eric Albin Voit (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes determining a secure path through a first plurality of network nodes within a network and determining an alternate secure path through a second plurality of network nodes within the network. The method also includes routing network traffic through the first plurality of network nodes of the secure path and detecting a failure in the secur...