ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,846, issued on July 7, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for centralized management of a plurality of cloud services of a cloud-based system" was invented by Mark Ryan (London) and Pooja Deshmukh (San Fransisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing a plurality of cloud services of a cloud-based system include receiving a request from a client associated with a cloud-based system, wherein the request is to perform one or more actions associated with the cloud-based system; determining if the client is allowed to perform the one or more actions based on a scope associ...