ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,602, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Configuring IoT devices for policy enforcement" was invented by David Tze-Si Wu (Fremont, Calif.), Siying Yang (Saratoga, Calif.) and Krishna Narayanaswamy (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to configuring IoT devices for policy enforcement. In particular, the technology disclosed relates to configuring a plurality of special-purpose devices on a network segment of a network to steer outbound network traffic to an inline secure forwarder on the network segment instead of a default gateway on the network segment...