US Patent Issued to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES on Jan. 27 for "Resource adaptive communication protocols" (Massachusetts, Illinois, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,860, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Resource adaptive communication protocols" was invented by Thomas O. McGinley (Portsmouth, R.I.), Colin Fumito Funai (Lincolnwood, Ill.) and Guevara Noubir (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technology is described for applying security to a message to be sent over a constrained bandwidth link. The method may include identifying a priority portion of the message, using machine learning, that is to be sent with increased security as compared with a remainder of the message. A level of security to be applied to the priority portion of...