ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,176, issued on March 3, was assigned to Illumio Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Managing a segmentation policy for workloads in a secure enclave" was invented by George Jeffrey Francis (Snohomish, Wash.), Matthew Kirby Glenn (Mountain View, Calif.), Jalandip Lepcha (San Jose, Calif.) and Paul James Kirner (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A policy management server manages a segmentation policy and automatically configures an enclave protection device consistently with the segmentation policy so that that the segmentation policy can be enforced with respect to workloads within a secure enclave protected by the enclave prot...