ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,711, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for network edge selection of network security processing" was invented by Joseph R. Mihelich (Folsom, Calif.), Michael Xie (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jordan Thompson (Burnaby, Canada), Sandip Borle (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sandeep Krishnamurthy (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide embodiments provide systems and methods for performing edge processing using selectively suspended network security processing."

The patent was filed on June 9, 2023, under Application No. 18/208,110.

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