ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,176, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Quarantine for cloud-based services" was invented by Antony Chan (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quarantine system could be disposed between an outer firewall and an inner firewall. The quarantine system may include persistent storage containing mappings between computing devices disposed within the inner firewall and data sources disposed outside the outer firewall. The quarantine system may include one or more processors configured to perform operations that include requesting and receiving, based on the mappings, a software-related...