US Patent Issued to PACKET FORENSICS on Sept. 30 for "Maintenance and adjustment of encrypted traffic by extracting anchors of trust" (Virginia, Colorado, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,260, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PACKET FORENSICS LLC (Virginia Beach, Va.).

"Maintenance and adjustment of encrypted traffic by extracting anchors of trust" was invented by Ian Macleod (Broomfield, Colo.), Donald McCarthy (Kingsport, Tenn.) and Victor Oppleman (Virginia Beach, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for inspecting encrypted network communications are presented. The techniques include: intercepting a binary file sent from a resource server to a host computer, where the binary file is configured to facilitate communications between the host computer and a remote server computer; identifying a trust anch...