US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Nov. 3 for "Packet route selection using security of service metrics" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,205, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Packet route selection using security of service metrics" was invented by Randall Sharo (Hanahan, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method involves numerically characterizing the security of each of more than one routes from a first location to a second location in a communications network and transmitting at least one packet along one or more routes of the communications network having a desired numerical characterization. The numerical characterization may include determining an aggregate packet detection me...