US Patent Issued to OPEN TEXT on May 20 for "System and method for leak prevention for domain name system requests" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,117, issued on May 20, was assigned to OPEN TEXT INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"System and method for leak prevention for domain name system requests" was invented by Jonathan Alexander Thorold Barnett (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods for DNS leak prevention and protection are disclosed herein. In particular, certain embodiments include a local DNS protection agent installed on a system and an associated trusted external DNS protection server. The DNS protection agent prevents DNS leaks from applications on the system such that all DNS requests from the system are confined to requests ...