US Patent Issued to R & D Industries on Sept. 8 for "Systems, methods and apparatus for local area network isolation" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,478, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to R & D Industries Inc. (Milford, Iowa).

"Systems, methods and apparatus for local area network isolation" was invented by Donald Van Oort (West Okoboji, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to methods, systems, and devices for the isolation of devices on a LAN network. Route poisoning, ARP poisoning null routing, blackhole and/or firewall blocking are employed to prevent peer-to-peer network communications within the local area network."

The patent was filed on Sept. 28, 2023, under Application No. 18/477,349.

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