ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,610, issued on May 6, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Dynamically scaled DDOS mitigation" was invented by Michael Feldpusch (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for dynamically mitigating a DDOS attack. In an aspect, the technology relates to a computer-implemented method for dynamically mitigating a distributed-denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. The computer-implemented method may include detecting a DDOS attack directing malicious traffic to a target, identifying one or more source locations of the malicious traffic, and in response to detecting the DDOS attack, activating one o...