ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,717, issued on July 22, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"High availability multi-tenant cloud based network access control system" was invented by Madhava Rao Cheethirala (San Jose, Calif.), Natarajan Manthiramoorthy (Fremont, Calif.), Pavan Basetty (Fremont, Calif.), Raja Rao Tadimeti (San Jose, Calif.) and Pavan Kumar Venkata Satish Bharathapudi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-based architecture includes a cloud-based network management system (NMS) that provides the management plane and one or more cloud-based NAC systems that provide NAC services, including end-point device auth...