ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,938, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Security integration for cloud services" was invented by Biju Balakrishnan Nair (Bangalore, India) and Brian Steven Vysocky Jr. (Hudson, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threat management facility for an enterprise network integrates native threat management capabilities with threat data from a cloud service provider used by the enterprise. By properly authenticating to the cloud service and mapping data feeds from the cloud service to a native threat management environment, the threat management facility can extend threat detection and management ...