US Patent Issued to Centripetal Networks on Oct. 21 for "Protecting networks from cyber attacks and overloading" (Virginia, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,270, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Centripetal Networks LLC (Portsmouth, N.H.).

"Protecting networks from cyber attacks and overloading" was invented by Sean Moore (Hollis, N.H.), Steven Rogers (Leesburg, Va.) and John Daniel Scoggins Sr. (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Packets may be received by a packet security gateway. Responsive to a determination that an overload condition has occurred in one or more networks associated with the packet security gateway, a first group of packet filtering rules may be applied to at least some of the packets. Applying the first group of packet filtering rules may include allowin...