US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 25 for "Enforcing location-based data privacy rules across networked workloads" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,948, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enforcing location-based data privacy rules across networked workloads" was invented by Nancy Patricia Cam-Winget (Mountain View, Calif.) and Eric Voit (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for maintaining geographic-based data privacy rules in networked environments. An example method includes receiving, from a first subsystem, a query for data; receiving, from the first subsystem, an aggregate passport indicating at least one geographic region in which the first subsystem and at least one second subsystem connected to the first sub...