ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,052, issued on July 14, was assigned to PA KNOWLEDGE Ltd. (London).

"Method and device for unidirectional data transfer" was invented by Duncan Bruce Evans (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of the disclosure there is provided a method of data transfer, comprising: receiving data at an ingress interface of a device, the received data comprising pay load data and ingress destination data, assigning received data to one of a plurality of logical data streams based on the ingress destination data, the device removing the ingress destination data associated with the payload data and addin...