ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,870, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Network action classification and analysis using widely distributed and selectively attributed sensor nodes and cloud-based processing" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Richard Kelley (Woodbridge, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for network traffic classification using distributed sensor nodes is provided, comprising a plurality of network traffic sensors each configured to monitor visible network traffic, analyze the monitored traffic to identify patterns, communicate with other network sensors to correlate their respective traffic data, p...