ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,272, issued on May 20, was assigned to Network Perception Inc. (Champaign, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for privacy preserving accurate analysis of network paths" was invented by David M. Nicol (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anonymizing systems and methods comprising a native configurations database including a set of configurations, a key management database including a plurality of private keys, a processor in communication with the native configurations database and the key management database, and a memory coupled to the processor. The set of configurations includes one or more textual descriptions and one or more...