ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,929, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Single configuration for multi-cloud firewall deployment" was invented by Ganesh Narayanaswamy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Praveen Kumar Patnala (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sreenivasa Kiran Madabhushi (San Jose, Calif.) and Vijay Chander (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for configuring resources of a service distributed across multiple cloud service providers. A method includes: receiving a request to configure a firewall in a cloud service provider, the request including a t...