US Patent Issued to F5 on July 21 for "Methods and devices for protecting a network service device" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,652, issued on July 21, was assigned to F5 Inc. (Seattle).

"Methods and devices for protecting a network service device" was invented by Judge K. Arora (Eastsound, Wash.), Sandeep Agarwal (San Jose, Calif.), Timothy S. Michels (Greenacres, Wash.) and Bruce A Zurfluh (Newman Lake, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, network traffic manager apparatuses, and systems that protects a network service device are disclosed. The method includes in response to receiving a notification indicating an attack risk to the network service device, activates a timer for a predetermined time period duri...