ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,621, issued on May 6, was assigned to eIngot LLC (Great Falls, Va.).

"Zero-knowledge environment based networking engine" was invented by William J. Raduchel (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Art Spivy (Great Falls, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus are described providing networking engines. Specifically, the present specification relates to a method for implementing software containers implementing network engines that may be configured to act in a zero-knowledge environment. In such implementations, all information pertaining to the network engine associated with a user that is stored in the container is sol...