ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,847, issued on April 15, was assigned to Aurascape.

"Systems and methods for implementing interim security policies" was invented by Viswesh Ananthakrishnan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Shujun Zhao (San Francisco), Ho Yu Lam (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nidhi Shah (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shu Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Huijun Veronica Zhu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, having a server and processor, is configured to receive a first set of security rules applicable to a set of users or a set of files for a first period of time. The first set of security rules are executable in an orde...