US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on May 5 for "Secure conditional domain name system operation" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,351, issued on May 5, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Secure conditional domain name system operation" was invented by Ashish Jain (Bellevue, Wash.), Shyamshankar Dharmarajan (Los Altos, Calif.), Avraham Carmon (Hofit, Israel), Murali Krishna Sangubhatla (Fremont, Calif.), Andrey Terentyev (Pleasanton, Calif.), Rupa Paramasivan (Sammamish, Wash.) and Sinead O'Donovan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments enhance the security of domain name resolution and other DNS operations, by automatically intercepting the DNS operation, determining an associated device identity or ascertainin...