ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,033, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Fabric interconnect as a service in middle mile network" was invented by Venkatraman Venkatapathy (Fremont, Calif.), Balaji Sundararajan (Fremont, Calif.), Giorgio Valentini (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Gokul Krishnan (Milpitas, Calif.) and Ankur Bhargava (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) interconnect gateway to connect multiple SaaS clouds based on user intent. The technology dynamically discovers the best possible interconnect gateway to provide access to different cloud services fr...