US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 28 for "Access control and routing optimization at a cloud headend in a cloud-based secure access service environment" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,216, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Access control and routing optimization at a cloud headend in a cloud-based secure access service environment" was invented by Mark A. Bakke (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a method that includes receiving, at an edge component of a cloud-based secure access service, a corresponding access designation for each of a plurality of endpoints, each access designation specifying a type of access a corresponding endpoint has to remaining ones of the plurality of endpoints and other access...