US Patent Issued to Censys on July 7 for "Spoofed UDP packet detection" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,884, issued on July 7, was assigned to Censys Inc. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Spoofed UDP packet detection" was invented by Jeffrey Cody (Fort Wayne, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ephemeral port of a probe UDP packet is populated with a first value that is a function of the destination address and destination port of a target as well as a random seed. The first value may also be a function of the local address of the server generating the probe UDP packet. The destination port of a response UDP packet is compared to a second value that is a function of the source address, source port, and the random seed, and possibly the destinat...