US Patent Issued to SiliconDust USA on Feb. 10 for "Secured network switch and method for secure and configurable filtering" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,516, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SiliconDust USA Inc. (Livermore, Calif.).

"Secured network switch and method for secure and configurable filtering" was invented by Nicholas John Kelsey (Glendale, Ariz.) and Richard Finbarr Dunphy (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secured network switch is configured to enforce security between devices on a home network to ensure vulnerable devices do not compromise assets on privileged devices. The secured switch operates at the data link layer and is configured to enforce security based on device management and enforcement. The switch is configured to only allow devices that ...