US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on June 2 for "Data diode for enhancing data security" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,277, issued on June 2, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Data diode for enhancing data security" was invented by Ramarathnam Venkatesan (Redmond, Wash.), Nishanth Chandran (Bangalore, India), Panagiotis Antonopoulos (Redmond, Wash.), Christoph Berlin (Bellevue, Wash.) and Michael James Zwilling (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data diode systems and methods are disclosed herein for enhancing data security. Encrypted data transmitted from a first node (e.g., an entity coupled to a network) is received. The data transmitted is encrypted with a public key associated with a second node (e...