ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,403, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cloud-based intrusion prevention system, multi-tenant firewall, and stream scanner" was invented by Srikanth Devarajan (San Jose, Calif.), Sushil Pangeni (Fremont, Calif.), Vladimir Stepanenko (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ravinder Verma (San Jose, Calif.) and Naresh Kumar Povlavaram Munirathnam (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a cloud-based system includes steps of, responsive to connecting to a user device with a user associated with a first tenant of a plurality of tenants, obtaining security policies for the user that are conf...