US Patent Issued to Menlo Security on March 4 for "Managing content uploads" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,561, issued on March 4, was assigned to Menlo Security Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Managing content uploads" was invented by Stephen John Stanley Thornhill (Chalfont St. Giles, Great Britain), Andrew Peter Edward Prince (Chippenham, Great Britain) and Joshua Frank Wharton (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing policy check functionality to file uploads is disclosed. An attempted file upload is detected at a browser isolation system. A user of a client is prompted to provide a credential associated with the file and usable to access contents of the file. A policy is applied to the file upload."

The patent...