ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,748, issued on July 28, was assigned to Varonis Systems Inc. (Miami).

"Method for controlling secure access to data in a hybrid-cloud environment" was invented by Ran Oichman (Cary, N.C.) and Nimrod Zimerman (Even Yehuda, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for controlling secure access to data in hybrid-cloud environments. A trusted authorisation server controls access to data served by a resource server to client devices in an untrusted environment, to ensure client devices are only able to access data that they are permitted to access. In the present techniques, the trusted authorisation server checks the va...