ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,268, issued on May 5, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Zero trust private application access via social media based validation for government applications" was invented by John A. Chanak (Saratoga, Calif.), William Fehring (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Richard Miles (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shujaat Jaffrey (Bengaluru, India), Jose Padin (Washington) and Matthew Moulton (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include, receiving a request from a user to access an application; determining if the user meets one or more requirements, wherein responsive to the user meeting the one or more requirements, presenting t...