US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods to improve network security via consensus-driven configuration plane" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,434, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods to improve network security via consensus-driven configuration plane" was invented by John R.B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.) and Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Configuration changes to the configurations of end devices in a network may be made by configuration devices, which may set up connections with the end devices and send configuration commands to the end devices. In such a system, the compromising of a configuration device may make it possible for an attacker to reconfigure end devices. Systems ...