ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,245, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Fastly Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for chaos testing in an edge network" was invented by Kelly Shortridge (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are disclosed herein that enable an infrastructure service to implement security verification without significantly interrupting end user network traffic. The infrastructure service copies request messages and modifies a portion of the header information of the request message. Both the original message and the modified message are then sent for fulfillment. The infrastructure service compares the responses in ord...