ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,182, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Gigamon Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Managing decryption of network flows through a network appliance" was invented by Manish Pathak (San Jose, Calif.), Kishor Joshi (Milpitas, Calif.) and Murali Bommana (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network appliance receives a communication from a client device that includes a request to establish a network connection to a server. Prior to initiating a network connection between the network appliance and the server, the network appliance accesses a server certificate associated with the server. In response to a determination not to decrypt d...