ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,730, issued on July 8, was assigned to WALTON ADVANCED ENGINEERING INC. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Method for construction of a high-security private group network" was invented by Hong Chi Yu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Mao Ting Chang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for construction of a high-security private group network is disclosed in the present application: a first user machine is electrically connected with a first private communication box and dependent upon specific authentication to join a first self-configuration peer-to-peer virtual private network constructed by the first private communication box using...