ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,767, issued on July 8, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Securing local network traffic using cloud computing" was invented by Abhinav Bansal (San Jose, Calif.) and Rohit Goyal (Mohali, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for securely handling data traffic on local or private networks, such as by using cloud computing, are provided. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, according to one implementation, may be configured to store executable instructions enabling a processor of a user device to perform the step of discovering an origin of a source application associated with network packets boun...