ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,823, issued on March 31, was assigned to Airia LLC (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Secure tunnel access to remote client resources for artificial intelligence agents" was invented by John Manton (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Gregory Roberts (Dunwoody, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are disclosed for enabling secure cloud connections between artificial intelligence ("AI") agents and client resources. A cloud connector executing at a client establishes an authenticated secure tunnel with a connection manager on a connection server. An AI agent is initiated to access cloud- and client-hosted AI models or data sources. The system uses guardrail...