US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on Feb. 11 for "Systems and methods for dynamic firewall policy configuration" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,980, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for dynamic firewall policy configuration" was invented by Jin-Gen Wang (Lafayette, Colo.) and Travis D. Ewert (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for receiving information on network firewall policy configurations are disclosed. Based on the received firewall configuration information, a configuration of a firewall and/or subnet of network devices is automatically provisioned and/or configured to control network traffic to and from the subnet."

The patent was filed on June 27, 2024, under Applicat...