ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,869, issued on July 14, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Machine learning language based dynamic network discovery" was invented by Venugopal SethuRamasamy (Bangalore, India) and Shashikiran G. Shirole (Ganapati nagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive TTL model is generated from connection events, based on varying flight delay times for connecting the device manager to a plurality of managed devices. During a connection event for any of the plurality of managed devices, a TTL value is automatically chosen for the connection event from the adaptive TTL model."

The patent was filed on March 27, 2023,...