ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,252, issued on June 17, was assigned to IMPERVA Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Network security dynamic access control and policy enforcement" was invented by Robert Dykes (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Lebin Cheng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Ravindra K. Balupari (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network security system and method provide dynamic access control for a protected resource using a client-initiated ticket generation scheme. A client application receives, from an access control manager, a limited-use access ticket and may include the limited-use access ticket within application program interface (API) calls to a servic...