ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,831, issued on March 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Semi-interactive one-way transfer of data to an isolated network" was invented by Thomas Werner Kuehnel (Seattle) and Joseph Neil Garfinkel (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to providing near real-time communications from a public network to a private network. A first computing device in a public network can obtain data packets to be provided to the private network from an application executing on the first computing device. A trust module executed by the first computing device can authenticate ...