US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 30 for "Network security functions for dynamic construction and programmatic placement" (New Hampshire, North Carolina, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,114, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network security functions for dynamic construction and programmatic placement" was invented by Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.), Vincent Parla (North Hampton, N.H.) and John Michael Lake (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for placing network functions among respective locations in a network. The locations at which the network functions are placed can be nodes and network devices within the network. These nodes can be selected, e.g., based on which network devices have available capacity and or speci...