ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,170, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Cloud-based resource discovery system and method" was invented by Ashish Aswal (Rishikesh, India), Alan Charles Toews (Billerica, Mass.) and Laxmikant Agarwal (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for configuring a network security device. The methods include deploying a network security device on a network, wherein the network security device includes a network security device interface; accessing, via the network security device interface, a first cloud-based computing platform configured to request from a first library metadata ass...