ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,044, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Unified identity platform for multiple cloud services" was invented by Murtuza Attarwala (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alice Wang (Burnaby, Canada) and Siva Udupa (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing identity services are provided. A method, according to one implementation, includes a step of assuming unified and centralized responsibility for performing identity-related services for a plurality of network security products. In response to an end user device attempting to initiate a session with a selected network security pr...