US Patent Issued to The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on Feb. 3 for "Method and device for transferring electronic information between a lesser trusted network and a trusted network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,759, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

"Method and device for transferring electronic information between a lesser trusted network and a trusted network" was invented by Robert John Dale (Cheltenham, Great Britain) and John Alan Thorp (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises; receiving original electronic information from a lesser trusted network in a first electrical zone; permitting electronic information to be transferred between the first electrical zone and the second electrical zone in one direction only; ...