ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,235, issued on June 17, was assigned to Centripetal Networks LLC (Portsmouth, N.H.).

"Methods and systems for efficient cybersecurity policy enforcement on network communications" was invented by Sean Moore (Hollis, N.H.), Vincent Mutolo (Portsmouth, N.H.), Alexander Chinchilli (Medford, Mass.), Paul Sprague (North Berwick, Maine), Christopher T. Rodney (New Ipswich, N.H.) and Justin Makoto Leach (Bow, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for improving packet filtering efficiency by reducing processing time and/or by reducing memory usage. Any of various types of ...