US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 19 for "Method and system of securing VPN communications" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,465, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method and system of securing VPN communications" was invented by Alan Thomas Gavin Jowett (Eagle Mt., Utah), Andrew Albert Hodgkinson (Highland, Utah), Lance Vernon Crandall (Saratoga Springs, Utah) and Jeffrey Scott Pinkston (Draper, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of and system for utilizing an access token to authenticate a client device for accessing a resource server include generating a session key for a communication session between the device and a resource server, deriving a nonce from the session key, and transmitting...