ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,914, issued on April 21, was assigned to Axiado Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network access proxy for zero-day attack protection in control and management plane applications" was invented by Gopi Sirineni (San Jose, Calif.), Alexander Bachmutsky (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Raghu Kondapalli (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods comprising a trusted control unit (TCU) proxy for security in an environment. The TCU proxy can comprise a classifier, a lookup engine, and an action engine. The TCU proxy can be used to prevent malicious activity on an environment."

The patent was filed on Feb. 2...