US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Feb. 10 for "IPsec aware load balancer with minimal decryption" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,352, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"IPsec aware load balancer with minimal decryption" was invented by Fang Lu (San Jose, Calif.), Peng Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Shu Lin (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "While organizations can employ IPsec based VPNs to securely connect different sites (e.g., branch sites, data centers, and/or virtual private clouds), the security can disrupt network performance by obfuscating information used for load balancing. Disclosed is technology that employs minimal decryption in a secure manner to load balance multiple network traffic flow...