ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,135, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for health based routing in an SDWAN" was invented by Kun Yu (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Fan (San Jose, Calif.), Yanheng Wei (San Jose, Calif.), Di Liang (Danville, Calif.) and Chih Ho Yen (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems, devices, storage media, and methods are discussed for selecting communication paths based upon health status in a hub and spoke communication network."

The patent was filed on Aug. 23, 2023, under Application No. 18/237,250.

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