ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,968, issued on March 31, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cloud-based deception technology with granular scoring for breach detection" was invented by Bhavesh Kothari (Pune, India), Sahir Hidayatullah (Mumbai, India), Deepen Desai (San Ramon, Calif.), Akshay Shah (Bangalore, India) and Reshad Patuck (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cloud-based deception systems and methods include monitoring activity associated with a plurality of decoys hosted in a decoy cloud environment for a customer, wherein the decoy cloud environment is separate from a real environment of the customer, and wherein the activity is...