US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security on Sept. 23 for "Server, switch and endpoints for secure communications" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,373, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (Washington).

"Server, switch and endpoints for secure communications" was invented by Michael Karas (Fairfax Station, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for securely exchanging information between a server and an endpoint. A firewall and switch may administer connections between the endpoint and the server. The network interface of the server may send and receive information through the firewall and switch. A program task in the sever may set the network interface to be in...