ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,913, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to VIASCOPE INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Network protection device and method for internal flow control via switch ARP modulation and access lists" was invented by Chanwoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Janghun Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Boyoung Jeong (Uiwang-si, South Korea), Hyunpil Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Junseok Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Eunsung Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Yong Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Dong-In Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Jae-Young Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Hangryul Lee (Namyangju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present disclosure, a net...