ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,440, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NILE GLOBAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for network segmentation" was invented by Suresh Katukam (Milpitas, Calif.), Promode Nedungadi (San Jose, Calif.), Shiv Mehra (Saratoga, Calif.) and Steve Alexander (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for network segmentation of a network deployed at a customer site involves establishing a tunnel between a network device of the network deployed at the customer site and a network port of a switch of the network deployed at the customer site, when a w...