ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,590, issued on July 7, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data security at cloud scale" was invented by Rajiv Asati (Morrisville, N.C.) and Akram Ismail Sheriff (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to protect data in a database. The method includes detecting an actual flow path for an API call between a source node and a destination node, determining whether the actual flow path for the API call deviates from an expected flow path for the API call, and in response to determining that the actual flow path for the API call deviates from the expected flow path by a predetermined threshold, den...