ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,096, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Certes Networks Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Policy driven traffic routing through dynamically inserted network services" was invented by Sean D. Everson (Valencia, Pa.), Benn Linger (Carnegie, Pa.), Suryanathan Padmanabhan (Pittsburgh) and Ganesh Murugesan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing and deploying network resources, comprising employing a container management tool in a network that implements resources through one or more containers, and engaging a policy extension with the container management tool. The policy extension may be configured to define and enforce us...