ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,556, issued on Feb. 17.

"System and method for detecting fraudulent network traffic" was invented by Anuram Palanisamy (Coimbatore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting fraudulent traffic in a computer network including: receiving a packet from a traffic flow; determining data associated with the traffic flow; determining a score associated with each piece of determined data; aggregating an overall score for the traffic flow; and determining whether the traffic flow is trusted based on the overall score. A system for detecting fraudulent traffic in a computer network including: a data processing engine configur...