ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,512, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Alias domains for accessing ZTNA applications" was invented by Robert Paul Andrews (Pflugerville, Texas), Venkata Suresh Reddy Obulareddy (Bangalore, India), Harsha A R (Mysore, India) and Neha Parshottam Patel (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud computing platform provides zero trust network access as a service to customers that maintain applications on-premises. In this context, the cloud computing platform may associate customers and/or applications with specific service proxies, and add an abstraction layer for network access that ma...