ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,491, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Threat detection of application traffic flows" was invented by Thomas Vegas (Gland, Switzerland), Anirban Karmakar (Vaud, Switzerland), Salvatore Valenza (Pomy, Switzerland) and Hamsa Sankaran (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology pertains to identifying one or more sub-components of one or more network devices in a network environment; disaggregating the one or more sub-components from corresponding network devices of the one or more network devices; monitoring one or more functional flows across the one or more sub-components...