ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,788, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Machine-learning association of application-specific flows within encrypted QUIC traffic" was invented by Blake Harrell Anderson (Chapel Hill, N.C.), David McGrew (Poolesville, Md.), Keith Richard Schomburg (Apex, N.C.), Michael Scott Dorsey (Sykesville, Md.) and Constantinos Kleopa (Clarksville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method herein comprises: obtaining, at a device, one or more packets of an encrypted QUIC traffic session in a network; determining, by the device, a plurality of application-specific flows multiplexed wi...