ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,921, issued on March 25, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cloud system providing data protection of data in a SaaS or cloud provider" was invented by Abhishek Bathla (Panipat, India), Kumar Gaurav (Cupertino, Calif.), Raman Madaan (Bengaluru, India), Chakkaravarthy Periyasamy Balaiah (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shweta Gupta (Chandigarh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a cloud system includes, subsequent to the cloud system connecting to one of a cloud provider and a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application, scanning data stored therein for one or more users associated with a tenant of a plural...