ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,176, issued on May 13, was assigned to FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Secure communication control system and method used in virtualized operating system environment" was invented by Souhwan Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Huy Hoang Nguyen (Seoul, South Korea) and Jungsoo Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a secure communication control system. The secure communication control system comprises a guest control unit provided in a guest operating system for generating a thread requesting arbitrary data from a host application installed in a host operating system;...