ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,177, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Mid-link forensic system for remote application environment" was invented by James S. Robinson (Indianapolis), Vadon Willis (Nashville, Tenn.) and John Khotsyphom (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an electronic inspection method and system comprising user endpoints, end-link servers belonging to a tenant, and a mid-link server. The mid-link server connects the user endpoints with an end-link server through tunnels. The mid-link server models an interaction in the tunnels using a model of an application layer. The mid-...