ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,553, issued on March 11, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Network cyber security platform" was invented by Mayur Kudtarkar (Broomfield, Colo.) and Kirsten Jensen Coppo (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security platform of a data network is provided that includes security services for computing devices in communication with the data network. The security platform may apply a security policy to the computing devices when accessing the Internet via a home network (or other customer network) and when accessing the Internet via a public or third party network. To provide security services to comput...