ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,966, issued on July 14.

"Consolidated domain management with DNS-anchored authority" was invented by Kishore Swaminathan (Willowbrook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Internet domain designates a Domain Authority (DA) via a DNS record as a consolidated and trusted entity for collecting, validating, storing, and distributing domain-related information, including devices associated with the domain, services it provides, capabilities it supports, identities acting on its behalf, and policies governing access to its resources. The DA performs cross-category validation to ensure consistency across these information types and may pu...