ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,336, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Personal network software defined-wide area networks (SD-WANs) with attested permissions" was invented by Eric Voit (Bethesda, Md.), Pascal Thubert (Roquefort-les-Pins, France) and Pradeep Kumar Kathail (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Personal network Software Defined-Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs) with attested permissions may be provided. A first one of a plurality Personal Area Network (PAN) devices in a PAN may seed a routing table entry for at least one application that the first one of the plurality PAN devices supports. The routing table entry ma...