ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,966, issued on March 3, was assigned to SCATR CORP (Cleveland).

"Endpoint validation security" was invented by John G. Andrews (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) and John P. Keyerleber (Richmond Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure provide for a scatter network device. In some examples, the scatter network device includes a non-transitory memory, at least one processor, and a key exchange application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the at least one processor, the key exchange application transmits a key exchange request to a first network endpoint, the key exchange request including an ...