ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,923, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for reinforcement learning to improve encrypted visibility engines" was invented by Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada), Flemming S. Andreasen (Marlboro, N.J.), Barry Qi Yuan (Vancouver, Canada), Bhavik Pradeep Shah (Karnataka, India) and Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes classifying a first encrypted data flow in accordance with a classification. Classifying the first encrypted data flow is based on characteristic information associated with the first enc...