US Patent Issued to Mimecast Services on March 18 for "Security continuity systems and methods" (British, American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,888, issued on March 18, was assigned to Mimecast Services Ltd. (London).

"Security continuity systems and methods" was invented by Jackie Anne Maylor (Wiltshire, Great Britain), Simon Paul Tyler (Wiltshire, Great Britain), Mark O'Hare (Melbourne, Australia) and Nathaniel S. Borenstein (Greenbush, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various exemplary embodiments, a security continuity system allows users to continue accessing certain user accounts (e.g., email, calendar, contacts, documents, instant messaging, cloud storage, etc.) through alternate logon identity credentials that are automatically provisioned such as when a secu...