ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,443, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for application and policy based network traffic isolation and data transfer" was invented by Kumar Ramachandran (Fremont, Calif.), Venkataraman Anand (San Ramon, Calif.), Navneet Yadav (Saratoga, Calif.), Arivu Mani Ramasamy (San Jose, Calif.) and Aaron Edwards (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed. For example, various systems, processes, and computer program products for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclos...