ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,911, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ANON-X INC. (Penn Valley, Calif.).
"Internet packet provenance to verify packet validity and control packet usage" was invented by George Sidman (Penn Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, to verify packet validity and control packet usage based on centrally stored and locally cached device profiles and usage policies. A processing device may receive, at an encryption tunnel, an unencrypted packet or a previously encrypted packet. The packet is encrypted with a one or m...