ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,224, issued on April 22, was assigned to strongDM Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Virtualized permission and security enforcement" was invented by Carlos Ulderico Cirello Filho (South San Francisco, Calif.), Philip D. Hassey (Rye, Colo.), Kevin David Jamieson (North Vancouver, Canada), Justin Allan McCarthy (Redwood City, Calif.), Amol Kabe (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Karim Fanous (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to managing interactions with applications. A plurality of interactions with the application that are enforced by the native security policies may be determined. A virtual policy interface may be genera...