US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Aug. 26 for "Deploying symmetric routing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,585, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Deploying symmetric routing" was invented by Jia Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Saurabh Dixit (San Jose, Calif.), Anil Saini (Milpitas, Calif.), Shu Lin (Saratoga, Calif.) and Hao Long (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for deploying symmetric routing are disclosed. A system, process, and/or computer program product for deploying symmetric routing includes routing network traffic from a client over a security access network provider virtual private network (VPN) access to a customer network, and enforcing symmetric routing cros...