ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,477, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cross-domain policy orchestration" was invented by Sanjay Kumar Hooda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Massimiliano Ardica (Valbonne, France), Darrin Joseph Miller (Marysville, Ohio), Elango Ganesan (San Jose, Calif.), Ian McDowell Campbell (Bow Mar, Colo.) and Saravanan Radhakrishnan (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cross-domain policy orchestration may include executing, with a cross-domain automation (CDA) controller, a macro-segmentation of a plurality of domains based at least in part on metadata defining a mapping to a correspond...