ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,069, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Applying ownership-based policies to a document" was invented by Prasenna Ravi (Thanjavur, India), Muhammed Shafeek (Bangalore, India), Venkataswamy Pathapati (Andhra Pradesh, India) and Anupam Kumar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer-readable medium of applying ownership-based policies to a document are disclosed. The disclosed technology includes intercepting a linked document being sent to a corporate network, using an inline proxy, responsive to an Application Program Interface access, by an account, to view ...