US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on April 29 for "Illicit route viewing system and method of operation" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,218, issued on April 29, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Illicit route viewing system and method of operation" was invented by Michael Benjamin (Broomfield, Colo.), Skyler J. Bingham (Superior, Colo.) and John S. Reynolds (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route viewing system includes a computing system that receives information associated with one or more routes through a network, and identifies the routes that are associated with at least one illicit user computer used by an illicit user. The computing system then obtains a source location of a source address of the routes and a destination l...