US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Sept. 23 for "Preserving security information over NAT enabled devices using encapsulation" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,370, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Preserving security information over NAT enabled devices using encapsulation" was invented by Uttam Ramesh (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jayant Jain (Cupertino, Calif.), Brian Russell Kean (Cincinnati), Aditya Srinivasa Ivaturi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Srikanth Ramachandran (Hayward, Calif.), Nidhi Shah (San Jose, Calif.) and Srikanth Mulakaluri (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data packet is received. It is determined whether the data packet is encapsulated. One or more security policies are applied to the data packet based on whether...