US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on Feb. 24 for "Varifocal threat analysis system and method" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,074, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Varifocal threat analysis system and method" was invented by John R. B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.) and Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems and methods permit threat intelligence to be determined and used at a local, regional, and/or global level in a communications network. A threat intelligence system may collect traffic information from local computing systems and analyze it for malicious traffic. If a measure of malicious traffic in a local computing system is reached, mitigation actions may be taken in t...