ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,360, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PERFTECH INC. (San Antonio).

"Extensions to wireguard for address assignment and route announcement" was invented by Lewis T. Donzis (San Antonio) and Lee Carl Ziegenhals (Boerne, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of storing a public key of a router and a private key of the router, connecting to a network through one or more network connection ports of the router, transmitting the public key of the router to a remote device and receiving a public key of the remote device via a network connection port during a public key exchange, activating a virt...