ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,552, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to VeloCloud Networks LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Automatic integration of IOT devices into a network" was invented by Anand Srinivas (San Francisco), Murtaza Zafer (San Jose, Calif.), Goutham Vijayakumar (Newark, Calif.) and Cheok Wan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a novel method that performs an automated process that identifies features of an IoT device connected to a network, and based on the identified features specifies, without an administrator input, one or more network policies (e.g., security policies) to apply to packets sent or received by th...