US Patent Issued to Airia on July 14 for "Secure tunnel access to locally executed tools for artificial intelligence agents" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,941, issued on July 14, was assigned to Airia LLC (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Secure tunnel access to locally executed tools for artificial intelligence agents" was invented by John Manton (Alpharetta, Ga.), Andrew Morgan (Dublin), Rahul Parwani (Atlanta) and Gregory Roberts (Dunwoody, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are disclosed for enabling artificial intelligence ("AI") agents to securely access client-hosted Model Context Protocol ("MCP") servers over cloud-managed connections. A cloud connector executing at a client authenticates with a connection server of an AI platform to establish a secure tunnel. A platform-based AI age...