ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,729, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Executing commands on air-gapped computer systems" was invented by Amihai Savir (Newton, Mass.), Stav Sapir (Beer Sheva, Israel), Naor Radami (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air-gapped computer receives, from a simplex communication input device, an encoded message communicated by a simplex communication output device. The air-gapped computer system can use a private key to decrypt an encrypted message which was encrypted by a corresponding public key. The air-gapped computer system decodes the en...