ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,770, issued on July 8, was assigned to strongDM Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Identity and activity based network security policies" 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 access to network resources. A first mesh agent may be configured to provide a client with access to a resource via an overlay network. The first mesh agent may determine an identity and...