ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,421, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Systems and methods for analyzing and controlling network traffic" was invented by Jan-Gregor Fischer (Zorneding, Germany), Michael Leipold (Nuremberg, Germany) and Michal Skubacz (Grobenzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for analyzing and controlling network traffic associated with at least one device that resides between a first network and a second network includes a processor that is operatively coupled to a memory and configured to execute a policy definition authority component and a network traffic analyze-control-component. The policy definitio...