ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,182, issued on April 22, was assigned to AgileBits Inc. (Toronto).

"Zero trust architecture with end user self-remediation" was invented by Jason Meller (Winchester, Mass.) and Frederick Ifert-Miller (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zero trust application enables access to a protected resource from a client device associated with a user. The client device has a browser, and an agent running locally and accessible via a local loopback interface. During an authentication flow, a browser-based script executes in the browser to deliver a challenge to the agent, and to collect a response to that challenge from the agent using a gr...