ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,711, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Policy management across multiple cloud computing environments within a network" was invented by Jonathan Michael Bosanac (San Francisco), Christopher Robert Geeringh (Berkeley, Calif.), Jason Eggleston (Newport Beach, Calif.), Lonhyn Jasinskyj (Palo Alto, Calif.) and John Sengenberger (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing policy-controlled communication between a plurality of different cloud computing environments includes a user interface that receives configuration settings to be applied to a plurality of first instances ...