ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,599, issued on March 4, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Private cloud control" was invented by Xu Zou (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jianlin Zeng (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Mei Wang (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Management of IoT devices through a private cloud. An IoT device is coupled to a gateway. A request from the IoT device to connect to a private cloud, wherein the private cloud is used to manage IoT devices, is received at a private cloud control center agent. An identification of the IoT device is determined. The IoT device is onboarded, using the identification, for management throu...