ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,708, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Air-gapped security for remote-managed sites" was invented by Dinesh C. Verma (New Castle, N.Y.), Gerald Coon (Durham, N.C.), Mathews Thomas (Flower Mound, Texas), Satishkumar Sadagopan (Leawood, Kan.), Utpal Mangla (Toronto) and Pawan Raghunath Chowdhary (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Air-gapped security for a remote-managed site is provide through a system and related methods, the system including a switch component having at least one network switch, a staging component to stage data for communication between a first si...