ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,113, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to A10 Networks Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Packet watermark with dynamic token validation" was invented by Yutun (Tony) Tseng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for mitigating a threat associated with network data packets are provided. The method commences with receiving, by an authentication server, a request for access to a server from a client. The method further includes authenticating the client by the authentication server. The authentication includes providing an authentication token to the client. The method continues with receiving, by a mitigation device, f...