ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,553, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Centripetal Networks LLC (Portsmouth, N.H.).

"Methods and systems for efficient network protection" was invented by Sean Moore (Hollis, N.H.), Jess P. Parnell (Grayson, Ga.) and Jonathan R. Rogers (Hampton Falls, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for integrating cyber threat intelligence (CTI), threat metadata, and threat intelligence gateways with analysis systems to form efficient and effective system for active, proactive, and reactive network protection. A network gateway may be composed of multiple stages. A first stage may include a threat intelligence...