ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,763, issued on April 7, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Reduced latency content prefetching with local behavioral profiles" was invented by Ganapathy Subramanian Ramachandran (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Rosarin Jolly Roy Antonyraj (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to migrating behavioral profiles for prefetching website content at proxy servers in content delivery networks (CDNs) from the proxy servers to corresponding endpoint devices. When an endpoint device communicates a request for a website, that request is routed to a proxy server of a CDN. The prox...