ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,168, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Zero trust support for secure networks via modified virtual private network" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam, Israel) and Amnon Ilan (Ra'anana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Zero trust support for secure networks can be provided via a modified virtual private network (VPN) server. For example, the VPN server may receive, from a VPN client executing on a client device, a first access request for a first software application in a computing environment that is accessible via the VPN server. The first access request can include authentication credential...