ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,870, issued on July 7, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Controlled dispersed architecture for threat prevention in software defined networks" was invented by Shailesh Prabhu (Manipal, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of life-cycle management for a threat-detection-agent at a network gateway node includes providing an SDN including a data plane, control plane, and an application layer including a threat-detection-agent life-cycle-management-block, deploying, by the threat-detection-agent life-cycle-management-block, a threat-detection-agent, receiving, by the threat-detection-agent life-cy...