ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,726, issued on July 8, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for providing enhanced security in edge computing environments" was invented by Christopher Smith (Broomfield, Colo.), Michael Benjamin (Broomfield, Colo.) and Peter Brecl (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for providing enhanced security in edge computing environments. A first aspect describes a method for moving security features dynamically applied to an application at a first deployment location to an application at a second deployment location. A secon...