ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,322, issued on June 10, was assigned to Vectra AI Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method, product, and system for network security management using software representation that embodies network configuration and policy data" was invented by Nicolas Beauchesne (Honolulu), Sohrob Kazerounian (Brookline, Mass.), William Stow Finlayson IV (Cherry Hill, N.J.) and Karl Matthew Lynn (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an approach for network security management using software representation that embodies network configuration and policy data. In some embodiments, the approach includes a process to generate a software rep...