US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on March 17 for "Scalable distribution of identity information in overlay networks with identity-based policies" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,791, issued on March 17, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scalable distribution of identity information in overlay networks with identity-based policies" was invented by Bala Gautama (San Jose, Calif.), Arivu Mani Ramasamy (San Jose, Calif.), Venkata Sarat Kumar Vajrapu (Bengaluru, India), Arun Kumar Palani (Bangalore, India), Anil Kumar Reddy Sirigiri (Bangalore, India) and Nagaraj A. Bagepalli (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network controller in an overlay network maintains collective sets of identity-based policies and identity mappings for onboarded users of the network for infor...