ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,631, issued on May 13, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Security zone policy enforcement in a cloud infrastructure system" was invented by Igor Dozorets (Sammamish, Wash.), Thoulfekar Alrahem (Bellevue, Wash.), Jun Tong (Bellevue, Wash.), Leonid Kuperman (Toronto), Nachiketh Rao Potlapally (McLean, Va.), Bala Ganesh Chandran (Seattle), Brian Pratt (Seattle), Nathaniel Martin Glass (Bellevue, Wash.), Girish Nagaraja (Sammamish, Wash.) and Jonathan Jorge Nadal (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-based security solution that provides a robust and secure framework for managing and enforcin...