US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 23 for "Automated modeling of an industrial network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,661, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated modeling of an industrial network" was invented by Swapna Anandan (Fremont, Calif.), Michael Freed (Pleasanton, Calif.), Akshay Khushu (San Jose, Calif.) and Ruben Erick Escolero (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a process discovers network topology information of a particular computer network and creates a plurality of zones of devices in the particular computer network based on the network topology information. The process also discovers network communication activity patterns and endpoints of the particular c...