ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,581, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Policy based privileged remote access in zero trust private networks" was invented by Dejan Mihajlovic (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Clifford Kahn (Sarasota, Fla.), Abhijeet Malik (San Jose, Calif.), Sandip Davara (San Jose, Calif.), Sunita Darbarwar (San Jose, Calif.), Srinivas Sannapareddy (San Jose, Calif.), Gana Ramachandra (San Jose, Calif.), William Fehring (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jian Liu (Fremont, Calif.), John A. Chanak (Saratoga, Calif.) and Sunil Menon (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for policy based privileged remote access...