ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,005, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and system for performing security management automation in cloud-based security services" was invented by Jae Hoon Jeong (Busan, South Korea), Patrick Lingga (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jung Soo Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yun Chul Choi (Sejong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a security management automation in an Interface to Network Security Functions (I2NSF) system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a high-level security policy via a consumer-facing interf...