ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,103, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Centripetal Networks LLC (Portsmouth, N.H.).

"Methods and systems for protecting a secured network" was invented by Steven Rogers (Leesburg, Va.), Sean Moore (Hollis, N.H.), David K. Ahn (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Peter P. Geremia (Portsmouth, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for protecting a secured network are presented. For example, one or more packet security gateways may be associated with a security policy management server. At each packet security gateway, a dynamic security policy may be received from the security policy management server, packets associated with a...