ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,153, issued on May 20, was assigned to GOODWELL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Secure private network navigation" was invented by David Boliek (Carnation, Wash.), John Cofano (Sammamish, Wash.) and Phillip Dellinger (Bothell, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure network navigation system includes a secure network portal and a site-to-site authenticator. The secure network portal includes a network authenticator to authenticate a user's browser connection to access content at a first site on the secure network. The site-to-site authenticator creates an object that authenticates the user's browser connection, creates a ...