ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,540, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Mutual transport layer security for secure sockets layer forward proxy" was invented by Johan Rikard Martin Andersson (Hagersten, Sweden), Suresh Vishwanathan (Bangalore, India), Dipta Pandit (Bengaluru, India), Nikhil Gavraskar (Bangalore, India) and Mohan Thangavel (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network device configured as a secure sockets layer forward proxy may receive network traffic associated with an identity. The network device may transmit, using mutual transport layer security, a ...