ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- United States Patent no. 11,973,752, issued on April 30, was assigned to strongDM Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Connection revocation in overlay networks" was invented by Britt Vandermast Crawford (Bend, Ore.), Philip D. Hassey (Rye, Colo.) and Alexander Chidi Okafor (Kennesaw, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to connection revocation in overlay networks. An overlay network may be employed to provide secure tunnels between clients and resources. In response to a privilege evaluation event, performing further actions, including: determining sessions associated with the secure tunnels; determining users and a portion of the resources based on th...