ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,569, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Exchange engine for secure access service edge (SASE) provider roaming" was invented by Sebastian Jeuk (Munich), Gonzalo Salgueiro (Raleigh, N.C.) and M. David Hanes (Lewisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for implementing and using a secure access service edge (SASE) exchange system to allow SASE providers to share SASE services with other providers. A SASE exchange system may be used by any number of SASE providers to support SASE roaming by user endpoints between different SASE providers. A user endpoint may u...