ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,799, issued on April 7, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Externally securing unmanaged devices using artificial intelligence operations (AIOPS) for network operations" was invented by Naga Kishore Reddy Tarimala (Bangalore, India) and Siva Yogendra Jupudi (Basavanagudi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unknown operational technology (OT) or Internet of Things (IoT) device is detected by capturing network transactions related to downstream network devices and identifying the unknown OT or IoT device from non-OT or non-IoT network devices on the enterprise network. A device type of the unknown OT or IoT device...