US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 29 for "Confining lateral traversal within a computer network" (Washington, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,475, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Confining lateral traversal within a computer network" was invented by Jeromy Scott Statia (Arlington, Wash.), Jeffrey Ryan Bacon (Bellevue, Wash.), Darrin Earl Curtis (Everett, Wash.), Aaron Richard Davis (Bellevue, Wash.), Douglas Anthony Rasler (Sammamish, Wash.), Elizabeth Anne Phippen (Bothell, Wash.), Satish Devan (Redmond, Wash.), Bum Su Jung (Redmond, Wash.), Daniel James Dawson (Peirson, Fla.) and George Kenneth Ringer (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Confining lateral traversal within a network. An authorization...