ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,817, issued on July 8, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data loss prevention (DLP) for cloud resources via metadata analysis" was invented by Sudha Iyer (Sunnyvale, Calif.), VenkataSwamy Pathapati (Koduru Mandal, India), Kenil Patel (Surat, India) and Krishna Narayanaswamy (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to an introspector that scans an organization's accounts on cloud storage services and detects resources on the cloud storage services configured to store the organization's data, and identifies the detected resources in a resource list. The technology disclosed fu...