ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,294, issued on April 29, was assigned to Forescout Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Dynamic segmentation management" was invented by Ilya Fainberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Mark Kurman (Neve Yarak, Israel) and David Bar (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and related technologies for segmentation management are described. In certain aspects, an entity communicatively coupled to a network is selected and one or more characteristics of the entity may be determined. A segmentation policy may be selected based on the one or more characteristics of the entity and one or more tags to be assigned to the entity ...