US Patent Issued to Fortinet on May 5 for "Zero-trust network access (ZTNA) secure traffic forwarding" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,271, issued on May 5, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Zero-trust network access (ZTNA) secure traffic forwarding" was invented by Ying Li Wang (Burnaby, Canada), Wenping Luo (Burnaby, Canada), Feng Han (Burnaby, Canada) and Weining Wu (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing zero-trust network access (ZTNA) secure traffic forwarding are provided. In one example, as part of setting up a transmission control protocol (TCP) forward access proxy (TFAP) tunnel, between a target service and an endpoint security agent of an endpoint device through which an application running on th...