ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,482, issued on July 29, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Enhanced cloud access security broker functionality utilizing in-band application observability" was invented by Walter Hulick (Pearland, Texas), David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada), Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada) and Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are techniques to facilitate enhanced cloud access security broker (CASB) functionality via in-band application observability in which a CASB can be implemented in-line between the client device and an embedded application security service. In one...