ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,857, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Security controls across SaaS apps" was invented by Chienhua Lu (San Jose, Calif.), Nicolas Antonio Filip-Sanchez (San Jose, Calif.) and Taylor Ettema (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques for security controls across SaaS apps are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/method/computer program product for providing security controls across SaaS apps includes collecting configuration settings for each of a plurality of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications (apps) for a SaaS security service, wherein the configura...