ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,966, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cloud workload import into SD-WAN policy" was invented by Balaji Sundararajan (Fremont, Calif.), Kannan Kumar (Tracy, Calif.), Madhu Somu (Fremont, Calif.), Ramakumara Kariyappa (San Jose, Calif.), Kushal A Patel (San Jose, Calif.), Vishnuprasad Raghavan (Sammamish, Wash.) and Deepthi Tammireddy (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for dynamically applying a security policy based on one or more tag attributes. The method comprises receiving, at a network controller, information about an instance of a...