ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,849, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Polymorphic dynamic firewall" was invented by Satishkumar Sadagopan (Leawood, Kan.), Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, N.Y.), Dinesh C. Verma (New Castle, N.Y.), Mathews Thomas (Flower Mound, Texas), Utpal Mangla (Toronto) and Gerald Coon (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product is provided for establishing a dynamically adaptive network firewall. A firewall model is established that identifies resources that can be used and a plurality of nodes that connect to one another to form a...