US Patent Issued to Sophos on Oct. 21 for "Self-optimizing deployment of decoupled threat management applications within cloud environments" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,252, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Self-optimizing deployment of decoupled threat management applications within cloud environments" was invented by James Gordon Wilson (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Guy William Roberts (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Simon Neil Reed (Wokingham, Great Britain) and Marc Ashley McGinnis (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threat management application is decoupled into a backend tier deployed at a regional compute resource of a cloud environment and a frontend tier deployed at one or more local compute resources of the cloud environment. A threat lo...