US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Sept. 2 for "Inline inspection cybersecurity enforcement of multipart file transmissions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,651, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Inline inspection cybersecurity enforcement of multipart file transmissions" was invented by Zihang Xiao (Los Gatos, Calif.), Lexuan Sun (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mengying Jiang (Campbell, Calif.) and Li Meng (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Separating awareness of multipart file transmissions of different applications from traffic handling at a granularity of an individual application layer session facilitates efficient cybersecurity enforcement on multipart file transmissions. A protocol-based multipart file transmission regulator ("r...