ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,464, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NETSKOPE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Elastic service instance provisioning in a dynamic service chain" was invented by Umesh Bangalore Muniyappa (Bangalore, India) and Ravi Ithal (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is increasing available bandwidth for processing of packets by a security service in a dynamic service chain, monitoring available bandwidth of the security service, taking into account a number of instances of the security service currently running, detecting a traffic volume that has exceeded a configurable threshold, provisioning a new instance to increa...