ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,541, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Exit interface selection based on intermediate paths" was invented by Sanjay Kumar Hooda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Anoop Vetteth (Fremont, Calif.), Himanshu Mehra (Saratoga, Calif.) and Rajeev Kumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for performing secure frame encryption as a service. For instance, a network edge device can determine at least a first path and a second path for routing a data packet. The network edge device can obtain a first plurality of values for at least one netwo...