US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on May 27 for "Accessing cloud environment with zero trust network access" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,609, issued on May 27, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Accessing cloud environment with zero trust network access" was invented by Steven Jensen (Conifer, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments that provide for accessing a cloud environment with Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). In particular, the embodiments provide managing communications via an identity broker through a secure tunnel between at least one network device and a cloud environment via an access device. The access device is preconfigured to contact the identity broker to establish the secure tunnel. At le...