ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,310, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Intent-based orchestration of routing controls across a network overlay" was invented by Satish Kumar Mahadevan (San Ramon, Calif.) and Sourav Sen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enabling centralized distribution and configuration of routing control settings in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) overlay are disclosed herein. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to defining a new address family in a communication protocol. The techniques may enable users to provide input related to configur...