ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,921, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Efficient encryption in VPN sessions" was invented by Akhilesh S. Thyagaturu (Tempe, Ariz.) and Vinodh Gopal (Westborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and software for efficient encryption in virtual private network (VPN) sessions. A VPN link and an auxiliary link (and associated sessions) are established between computing platforms to support end-to-end communication between respective application running on the platforms. The VPN link may employ a conventional VPN protocol such as TLS or IPsec, while the auxiliary link compris...