US Patent Issued to Centripetal Networks on Dec. 30 for "Rule-based network-threat detection for encrypted communications" (North Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,175, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Centripetal Networks LLC (Portsmouth, N.H.).

"Rule-based network-threat detection for encrypted communications" was invented by David K. Ahn (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Sean Moore (Hollis, N.H.) and Douglas M. Disabello (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet-filtering system configured to filter packets in accordance with packet-filtering rules may receive data indicating network-threat indicators and may configure the packet-filtering rules to cause the packet-filtering system to identify packets comprising unencrypted data, and packets comprising encrypted data. A portion of the un...