ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,949, issued on March 18, was assigned to Illumio Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Segmentation server cluster for managing a segmentation policy" was invented by Antonio Pedro Alexandre Rainha Dias (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joel E. Vanderkwaak (Mountain View, Calif.), Bryan Patrick Pelham (Pleasanton, Calif.), Mukesh Gupta (Fremont, Calif.), Juraj George Fandli (Campbell, Calif.), Charles Zou Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Thukalan V. Verghese (San Carlos, Calif.) and Paul James Kirner (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A segmentation system includes a cluster of segmentation servers that interoperate to obtain and manage a segmentati...