ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,119, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amyna Systems Inc. (Hackensack, N.J.).

"Programmable switching device for network infrastructures" was invented by James Kyriannis (Tenafly, N.J.) and Min Kyriannis (Tenafly, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable switching device within a network infrastructure that includes at least one port; and at least one programmable filter communicatively coupled to the at least one port, wherein the at least one programmable filter is configured to permit/deny data packets being transmitted to or from a networked device connected to the at least one port based on a set of defined rules."

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