ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,269, issued on June 16, was assigned to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Multipath network traffic distribution methods for reduced detectability" was invented by Prithwish Basu (Westford, Mass.), George Stephen Zabele (North Reading, Mass.), Gregory S. Lauer (Falmouth, Mass.) and Christophe Jean-Claude Merlin (Wakefield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of sending a flow of a plurality of data packets across a data network from a source node to a destination node is provided, the data network including a plurality of links between nodes. The method includes: (a) determining a set of weights, the weights co...