ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,876, issued on April 14, was assigned to DigiCert Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Validating an IPV6 address from an IPV4 network" was invented by Jared Daniels (Lehi, Utah), Benjamin Cardon (Pleasant Grove, Utah) and Ryan Milne (Ogden, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for validating an Internet Protocol (IP) version 6 (IPv6) address from an IP version 4 (IPv4) network. A method, according to one implementation, includes a step of receiving an IPv4-based request from a validation server that is configured to support an IPv4 address space. The method further includes a step of sending an IPv6-based req...