ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,923, issued on March 31, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Authentication and enforcement of differentiated policies for a bridge mode virtual machine behind a wireless host in a MAC based authentication network" was invented by Roberto Mitsuo Kobo (Pleasanton, Calif.), Zheng Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Gopala Krishna Andagunda (Karnataka, India), Einar Nilsen-Nygaard (East Ayr, Great Britain), Shree Murthy (San Jose, Calif.) and Parthiv Shah (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for authenticating and enforcing differentiated policies for a virtual machine (VM) executing in bridge mode on...