ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,069, issued on March 3.

"Communication link" was invented by Han Chuen Lim (Singapore) and Maotong Liu (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication link 13 for transferring data between a computer system 19 and a data handling device 11 for the computer system is disclosed herein. The communication link 13 comprises a first unidirectional link 25 for transferring data from the user computer system 19 to the data handling device 11 and comprising a hardware encryption device 53 to encrypt data prior to being received at the data handling device 11; and a second unidirectional link 27 for transferring data from the data ha...