ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,306, issued on May 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Standardized interface for wide area network programming" was invented by Saswat Praharaj (Pleasanton, Calif.), Fabio R. Maino (Palo Alto, Calif.), Alberto Rodriguez Natal (Leon, Spain), Ram Dular Singh (Cupertino, Calif.) and Vivek Agarwal (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing a standardized interface that is configured to provide application developers with ways for interacting with different wide area network controllers. A standardized interface may include an application programming interface (API) server that ca...