ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,049, issued on June 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for network policy simulation" was invented by Sunil Kumar Gupta (Milpitas, Calif.), Navindra Yadav (Cupertino, Calif.), Michael Standish Watts (Mill Valley, Calif.), Ali Parandehgheibi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shashidhar Gandham (Fremont, Calif.), Ashutosh Kulshreshtha (Fremont, Calif.) and Khawar Deen (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure generally relate to a method and system for network policy simulation in a distributed computing system. The present technology relates techniques that enable simulation of ...