ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,710, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Threat notifications and remedies for home networks" was invented by Jayaprahas Jaganathan (Chennai, India), Balakrishnan Kandasamy (Namakkal, India) and Vadivel Pichaimani (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, components, devices, and systems for network security and for providing threat notifications in association with threat detections. Some aspects relate to notifications for network security threats detected by a gateway of a network. The gateway may monitor network traffic on the gateway and detect threats using packe...