ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,240, issued on June 17, was assigned to Tailscale Inc. (Toronto).

"Centralized management control lists for private networks" was invented by David F. Carney (Toronto), Avery Pennarun (Montreal) and David J. Crawshaw (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage private networks for computing elements. In one example, a coordination service may obtain a request from a computing element to join a private network. In response to the request, the coordination service may identify communication rules associated with the computing element based on credential and device infor...