ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,209, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Bitglass LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Stateful access control of data" was invented by Anurag Kahol (Los Gatos, Calif.), Anoop Kumar Bhattacharjya (Campbell, Calif.) and Balas Natarajan Kausik (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediate device enforces security rules on cloud data accesses. Network traffic between a client application and a cloud application is routed to the intermediate device. The intermediate device tags data that is stored in the cloud application in order to track the data and encrypts the data including the tags such that the intermediate device can only de...