ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,421, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Client device verification" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Eric A. Voit (Bethesda, Md.), Eric Levy-Abegnoli (Valbonne, France), Patrick Wetterwald (Mouans Sartoux, France) and Jonas Zaddach (Antibes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using Network Address Translation (NAT), Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP), and/or other techniques in conjunction with Domain Name System (DNS) to anonymize server-side addresses in data communications and verify an authenticity of a client device attempting to use a virtual...