US Patent Issued to Fortanix on March 31 for "Network segmentation for secure network tunneling" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,912, issued on March 31, was assigned to Fortanix Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Network segmentation for secure network tunneling" was invented by Gijsbrecht Natanael Kwakkel (Lienden, Netherlands) and Jethro Gideon Beekman (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request of a VPN client to connect to a second set of one or more networks is received by a first VPN server associated with a first set of one or more networks. The request comprises an identifier of the VPN client, an attestation of an access control server that the VPN client complies with a compliance profile required to access the second set of one or m...