US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Sept. 30 for "Global visibility for virtual private network (VPN) conditions for routing optimizations" (Canadian, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,144, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Global visibility for virtual private network (VPN) conditions for routing optimizations" was invented by Shangwei Duan (Vancouver, Canada), Wang Xi (Vancouver, Canada), Dmitry Perets (Bologna, Italy), Yong lin Han (Surrey, Canada), Pin Yi Kuo (Burnaby, Canada) and Scott Parker (Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A local spoke is configured with a hub that serves at least one remote spoke equipped with a plurality of IPSEC endpoint interfaces for routing traffic according to a routing table of the hub. A first routing path is received to the a...