ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,734, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Mediated traffic control through mid-link server" was invented by Bradley B. Harvell (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controlled content system for providing a controlled and contained environment that is remotely accessible is disclosed. A third-party application on the end user device is modified to allow certain sites and services to be mediated in a mid-link server. The app uses policies to know when to access the mid-link server for the controlled and contained environment. Policies can specify the type of processing performed on the mid-...