ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,765, issued on July 28, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Middle-ware artificial intelligence (AI) engine for response generation" was invented by Stevan W. Pierce Jr. (Camas, Wash.), Damian Charles Chung (Gilbert, Ariz.), Robert Wayne Butler II (Rockport, Ill.) and Madhura Sridhar (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system uses an artificial intelligence (AI) engine to generate a response for end-user devices using services and to provide threat protection in a cloud-based network. The system consists of tenants, tunnels, the AI engine, and an AI reporter. A tenant includes the end-user devices. The...