US Patent Issued to Microsoft Licensing Technology on Sept. 2 for "Handling raw DNS queries in DNS client" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,643, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Licensing Technology LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Handling raw DNS queries in DNS client" was invented by Aditi Pravin Patange (Bellevue, Wash.), Milan Crowley Justel (Kirkland, Wash.), Alexandru Jercaianu (Redmond, Wash.), Matthew Raymond Cox (Bothell, Wash.) and Ivan Dimitrov Pashov (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for handling raw DNS queries or DNS queries that generate responsive DNS records from a DNS server that are not recognized or decodable by a DNS client are described. The DNS client may receive a DNS query from an application and provid...