ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,945, issued on April 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method, programmable switch, and computer program product for detecting network attack" was invented by Weibing Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in an illustrative embodiment includes registering a storage system of a server with a programmable switch for transmitting and compressing data. The method further includes transmitting read data and write data associated with the storage system between the server and a client by the programmable switch. The method further includes determining a compression ratio of the read data and a com...