ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,362, issued on June 2, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Managing software-as-a-service limits by managing power users" was invented by Chandrasekaran Rajagopalan (San Jose, Calif.) and Brian Miller (Moraga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for reducing triggering of throughput penalties imposed on a group of users by a software-as-a-service (SaaS) server due to Application Programming Interface (API) calls exceeding limits of the SaaS server. The approaches include intercepting requests to the SaaS server from a user group and monitoring a rate of API calls the API calls forwarded to the S...