ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,073, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data access via secure tunnels in multi-tenant cloud native control plane system" was invented by Parag Pritam Thakore (Los Gatos, Calif.), Sunil Mukundan (Chennai, India) and Anupam Rai (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing data exchange using secure tunnel in a multi-tenant cloud native control plane system. A request is received by cloud control plane for accessing data. The cloud control plane provisions network connection to service endpoint at cloud provider for providing access using data plane and control plane. The ...