ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,950, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Automatic reconfiguration of network interface driver on network sensor host" was invented by Luke Coughlan (Galway, Ireland), Gianni Tedesco (Seoul, South Korea) and Morgan Nally (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include systems and methods pertaining to a network sensor host configured to implement a receive side scaling (RSS) configuration component in a security environment. The RSS configuration component may be used to automatically generate an RSS configuration comprising one or more settings customized for the network sensor host ...