ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,793, issued on July 28, was assigned to Delinea Inc. (San Francisco).

"Distributing security policies" was invented by Philip David Hassey (Rye, Colo.), Patrick Richard Jakubowski (Seattle), Kevin David Jamieson (North Vancouver, Canada) and William Craig Jones (Lake Charles, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments distribute security policies in network environments. Entity change entries associated with updating, adding or removing entities from an entity datastore may be obtained. A request to obtain a security state view may be employed to perform additional actions, including: obtaining a new log identifier based on a cur...