ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,815, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Managing access across a cloud boundary" was invented by Charles Damian O'Neill (Ballymena, Great Britain), Antoine Sibout (Barcelona, Spain) and Hayden Paul Shorter (Bangor, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for managing and/or regulating access, by applications executing in a cloud environment, to network resources operating outside of the cloud environment. In one example, this disclosure describes receiving, from a first application executing in a cloud environment, a first request to be delivered to...