US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 30 for "Dynamic security policy and key management for converged networks" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,256, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic security policy and key management for converged networks" was invented by Maik Guenter Seewald (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and architecture are described for dynamic security policy and key management for converged networks. More particularly, the techniques and architecture provide for configuring and managing converged industrial networks and configuring the converged industrial networks with respect to security policy and key management when also configuring and managing the converged industrial networks ...