ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,940, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Selective deep inspection in security enforcement by a network security system (NSS)" was invented by Ravi Ithal (Los Altos, Calif.) and Krishna Narayanaswamy (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to reducing error in security enforcement by a network security system (abbreviated NSS). The NSS classifies incoming connection access requests as loss prevention inspectable or connection preserving by determining their conformance or non-conformance with semantic and content requirements of HTTP and HTTPs protocols. T...