ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,851, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CDW LLC (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

"Operations and maintenance techniques subsystem for secure classified remote access as a service" was invented by Marty Spain (Indian Head, Md.) and Peter Joseph Dunn (Crestview, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system includes a processor, a network interface controller (NIC) configured to communicate via multiple networks; a virtual desktop infrastructure application (VDIA) including computer-executable instructions configured to: perform operations and maintain a virtual hosting environment; remediate a finding by hardening network access; and noti...