ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,118, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"User activity auditing of resource traversal across connected company nodes" was invented by Ofer Ben-Noon (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ohad Bobrov (Tel Aviv, Israel), Guy Harpak (Ramat Gan, Israel), Eran Rom (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ido Salomon (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Based on occurrence of audit trigger events that include uploading, downloading, modifying, copying, and pasting of resources across browsers at nodes of a company, audit records are generated that indicate user identifiers, time stamps, metadata, and content associated ...