ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,603, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Computing interface network configuration graphs and techniques for securing computing environments therewith" was invented by Dor Dankner (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tomer Semo (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Aner Morag (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shay Levi (Tel Aviv, Israel), Oz Golan (Ramat Gan, Israel), Oren Shpigel (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Hila Zigman (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for securing a computing environment using graphing of computing interfaces. A method includes traversing a network configuration graph with respec...