ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,732, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for automatic secure sockets layer (SSL) bypass" was invented by Lidor Pergament (San Mateo, Calif.), Srikanth Devarajan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Akshat Maheshwari (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for automatically bypassing SSL connections responsive to client SSL handshake failures. Various embodiments include detecting a first failed client SSL connection, creating a cache entry including a traffic fingerprint of the first failed client SSL connection, and bypassing subseq...