ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,891, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic policy enforcement for cloud-based applications in an enterprise environment" was invented by Rajesh Indira Viswambharan (Karnataka, India) and Poojalakshmi D (Mangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are techniques to facilitate dynamic policy enforcement for cloud-based applications in an enterprise environment. In one example, a method may include obtaining, from a cloud network of a cloud-based application, an authentication request associated with an enterprise user that is seeking to utilize the cloud-based applicat...