ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,017, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to UAB 360 IT (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Identity-based distributed cloud firewall for access and network segmentation" was invented by Carlos Eliseo Salas Lumbreras (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Juta Gurinaviciute (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a method of controlling access to network resources includes: receiving an authentication request from a user device to a core security service; if the user is authenticated, authorizing the user device to connect to a private cloud, and connecting the user device with the private cloud and retrieving user-specific...