US Patent Issued to Sophos on Feb. 10 for "Hybrid appliance for zero trust network access to customer applications" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,523, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Hybrid appliance for zero trust network access to customer applications" was invented by Robert Paul Andrews (Pflugerville, Texas), Biju Ramachandra Kaimal (Bangalore, India), Nitin Gupta (Kanpur, India) and Amit Katyal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zero trust network access appliance deployed at a customer premises can support gateway and cloud modes. In a gateway mode, the appliance operates as a zero trust network access gateway, and provides zero trust network access to applications hosted at the customer premises, using a firewal...