ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,214, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cujo LLC (Covina, Calif.).
"Network device protection" was invented by Kimmo Kasslin (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for network device protection. The method includes: intercepting present network data related to a present data connection of a user apparatus; analyzing the present network data; and in response to determining that the user apparatus utilizes a privacy feature in the present data connection implemented by a first internet relay and a second internet relay, blocking the present data connection."
The patent was fi...