ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,954, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Enabling device context awareness, data ingestion and real-time actions in mobile networks" was invented by Mitchell Rappard (Lee's Summit, Mo.), Justin Tyler Rorabaugh (Pflugerville, Texas), Lior Kolnik (Leander, Texas), John Plant (Cedar Park, Texas), Leonid Burakovsky (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Sachin Verma (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for data ingestion enabling context awareness and real-time actions in mobile networks are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, a process, and/or a computer program product for d...