ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,666, issued on May 12, was assigned to PRIBIT TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Controller-based network access control system, and method therefor" was invented by Young Rang Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node according to an embodiment disclosed in the present document may store instructions which cause the node to: detect a network access event through an access control application; transmit a domain name system (DNS) query request packet to a first external server through the access control application; receive a DNS query result from the first external server, wherein the DNS query result includes ...