US Patent Issued to RealDefense on April 21 for "Selectively blocking connection requests to ensure privacy" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,908, issued on April 21, was assigned to RealDefense LLC (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Selectively blocking connection requests to ensure privacy" was invented by Grzegorz Jan Wolny (Fontana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Promoting privacy while using a computer network. An operating system kernel-level process, having kernel-level access privilege, filters packets received over the computer network. When doing so, the header of a packet is examined to identify an origin of the packet. Upon determining that the origin of the packet is associated with a blacklist of entities, a connection request made a script comprised within the pac...