US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 7 for "Creating graphical models of network security policies and displaying on a network topology graph" (Polish, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,183, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Creating graphical models of network security policies and displaying on a network topology graph" was invented by Jay Kemper Johnston (Raleigh, N.C.), Michael Chomicz (Toronto), David Alexander Pryor (Clayton, N.C.), Radoslaw Konrad Ruchala (Malopolskie, Poland) and Jan Stanislaw Krupa (Malopolska, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and architecture are described for abstracting a real physical twin network wherein security policies are mapped as an overlay on a graphical representation of the network topology. The techniques include rec...