US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 5 for "Secure networking engine for a secure networking system" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,847, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Secure networking engine for a secure networking system" was invented by Alon Catz (Tel Aviv, Israel), Guy Lewin (New York) and Gal Luvton (Hadera, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing a local protocol server associated with a secure networking engine that provides client-side forwarding in a secure networking system. The local protocol server (e.g., local TCP/UDP server)-on a client device-operates based on client-side forwarding operations that include: IP assignment, operating syst...