ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,447, issued on July 29, was assigned to Centripetal Networks LLC (Portsmouth, N.H.).

"Efficient packet capture for cyber threat analysis" was invented by David K. Ahn (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Sean Moore (Hollis, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for efficiently detecting threat incidents for cyber threat analysis are described herein. In various embodiments, a computing device, which may be located at a boundary between a protected network associated with the enterprise and an unprotected network, may combine one or more threat indicators received from one or more threat intelligence p...