ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,472, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Executable policy declarations for network security" was invented by Biju Ramachandra Kaimal (Bangalore, India), Avni Bhupendrakumar Wala (Bangalore, India) and Nikhil Bhandari (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A policy created through an administrative user interface is converted into an intermediate representation that can be compiled for execution by a gateway or converted into a human-readable form for modifications by the administrator."
The patent was filed on March 9, 2022, under Application No. 17/690,632.
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