ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,797, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems, methods, and devices for improved security policy distribution in a cloud-computing environment" was invented by Luis Campo Giralte (Dublin) and Anil Abraham (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed herein that provide distribution of policies for computing platforms. A computing platform may be implemented using a server system, and the computing platform is configurable to cause receiving a policy data object at a first domain of the computing platform, the policy object identifying one or more securi...