ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,143, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Ordr Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Security policy generation and enforcement for device clusters" was invented by Krishna Kumar Vavilala (Bangalore, India), Vijayaraghavan Doraiswami (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vivekanandan Vinayagam (San Ramon, Calif.), Sheausong Yang (Saratoga, Calif.), Vinod Arjun (Bengaluru, India) and Gnanaprakasam Pandian (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating and enforcing security policies for device clusters are disclosed. A security manager generates a plurality of clusters of devices for applying security policies. For each cluster of de...