ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,684, issued on May 12, was assigned to AO Kaspersky Lab (Moscow).

"System and method for secure transfer of data between networks" was invented by Dmitry S. Lukiyan (Moscow), Alexey G. Vereshchagin (Moscow), Maxim A. Dontsov (Moscow), Ruslan Y. Morozov (Moscow) and Denis S. Kashitsyn (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed system and method for secure transfer of data between networks. An example method comprises: setting a first state of the gateway, wherein in the first state a destination agent of the gateway is granted access to a first memory and denied access to a second network; while the gateway is in the first state,...