ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,301, issued on April 1.

"Methods and systems for automatically securing endpoint device data communications" was invented by David Thomas Bonczar (Squantum, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically securing endpoint device data communications includes establishing, between a first server and an endpoint device, a persistent virtual private network (VPN) connection, the endpoint device configured to automatically establish the persistent VPN connection upon establishing network connectivity. The first server provides, for the endpoint device, a network address translation (NAT) firewall service. The first server...