US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 16 for "Systems and methods for segmenting networks using user defined networks" (California, Ohio, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,235, issued on June 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for segmenting networks using user defined networks" was invented by Shree N. Murthy (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen Michael Orr (Wallkill, N.Y.), Sanjay Kumar Hooda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Sudhir Kumar Jain (Fremont, Calif.), Darrin Joseph Miller (Marysville, Ohio) and Ameet Prakash Kulkarni (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for creating user defined network in a network environment is provided. Users are able to create user defined networks which as private logical groups that extend across different...