ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,599, issued on March 4, was assigned to strongDM Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Fine-grained security policy enforcement for applications" was invented by Philip David Hassey (Rye, Colo.), Yanran Zeng (Pittsburgh), Brian David Rowe (Portland, Ore.), Kevin David Jamieson (North Vancouver, Canada), Patrick David Stephen (Minneapolis) and Karim Fanous (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments generate state elements based on application requests from a client. The state elements may be enqueued in a state queue associated with an application session for an application requests and the application requests may be forwarded to the a...