ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,462, issued on June 2, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for intelligent application definition and protection" was invented by Nathan Howe (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for intelligent application definition and protection. In various embodiments, steps include receiving a destination service definition from a customer; performing an assessment of the destination service to determine one or more policies to use for the destination service; responsive to receiving a request from a user to access the destination service, directing the request to a control laye...