US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 9 for "Method to achieve dynamic NAT66 encryption and decryption" (Texas, Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,567, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method to achieve dynamic NAT66 encryption and decryption" was invented by Rajamathangi Subramanian (Austin, Texas), David Maluf (Mountain View, Calif.) and Eric Voit (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for systems and methods of dynamic but stateless NAT encryption and decryption. The disclosed technology provides a robust encryption/decryption algorithm for concurrently obfuscating source and destination IPv6 addresses for SNAP deployments with 100% reversal and zero collisions, thereb...