US Patent Issued to Sophos on March 25 for "Firewall techniques for colored objects on endpoints" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,824, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Firewall techniques for colored objects on endpoints" was invented by Andrew J. Thomas (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Neil Robert Tyndale Watkiss (Oxford, Great Britain), Daniel Salvatore Schiappa (Bedford, N.H.) and Kenneth D. Ray (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application executing on an endpoint accesses remote resources using a gateway. In response to a requested remote access, the application may be marked with a descriptor that specifies a target action and a pattern of occurrences of the target action. When a second observable action o...