ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,952, issued on April 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Network protocol security framework to prevent cyberattack on a computing environment" was invented by Parminder Singh Sethi (Ludhiana, India) and Anay Kishore (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises configuring a network protocol security engine to separately reside between a set of one or more first computing devices (e.g., clients) making one or more service requests (e.g., TCP requests) and a set of one or more second computing devices (e.g., web servers) responding to the one or more service requests. The network protocol...