US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on May 26 for "Dynamic expansion and contraction of edge clusters for managing access to cloud-based applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,006, issued on May 26, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic expansion and contraction of edge clusters for managing access to cloud-based applications" was invented by Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey (Fremont, Calif.), Sidhesh Divekar (Milpitas, Calif.) and Linus Aranha (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Edge clusters execute in a plurality of regional clouds of a cloud computing platforms, which may include cloud POPs. Edge clusters may be programmed to control access to applications executing in the cloud computing platform. Edge clusters and an intelligent routing module route traffic to a...