US Patent Issued to Outside the Stacks on Sept. 16 for "Management, diagnostics, and security for network communications" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,407, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Outside the Stacks Inc. (Carmel Valley, Calif.).

"Management, diagnostics, and security for network communications" was invented by Nalini Joshi Elkins (Carmel Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method securely and selectively provide visibility along a communication path in end-to-end communications, while ensuring security of the transmission, and while further ensuring that unauthorized persons cannot view network packets. A separate parallel channel is used to provide visibility into data in transit to authorized parties, without revealing such data to unauthorized...