ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,312, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Constraint-based training data generation" was invented by Marcelo Yannuzzi (Vufflens-la-Ville, Switzerland) and Benjamin William Ryder (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device may receive a request for training data that is based on application data generated by an application executed at a data collection node, wherein the application data is associated with metadata identifiers. The device may determine one or more training data constraints that restrict use of the application data as training data. The dev...