ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,674, issued on May 27, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).

"Securing network traffic between a web client and a secure web gateway" was invented by Juliang Jiang (Nanjing, China), Bin Shi (Nanjing, China) and Shujun An (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure web gateway is deployed on the cloud between a web client and a web server. The secure web gateway sends the web client a redirect response status code with a replacement server location in response to a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request sent by the web client to access a target resource on the web server. The secure web gateway thereafter receives ...