ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,098, issued on March 3, was assigned to Netflow, UAB (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Use of dynamically modifiable rules in a computing and communications system" was invented by Karolis Kaciulis (Kaisiadorys, Lithuania), Nikodemas Zaliauskas (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Donatas Budvytis (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally pertains to the use of a set of dynamically modifiable rules for a computing and communications system. An example method of use involves a first computing device applying a first set of dynamically modifiable rules for operating upon data. The first computing device detects a data activi...