ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,139, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Deploying session initiation protocol application network security" was invented by Alex E. Raj (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems, methods, and computer-program product embodiments for providing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) network security. In some embodiments, a SIP processing system includes a SIP device configured to receive a packet stream from a first SIP user agent and facilitate a SIP communication session between the first SIP user agent and a second SIP user agent. The SIP device receives the SIP messages in the SIP co...