ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,341, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to HAProxy Holdings Inc (Wilmington, Del.).

"Multi-layer chaining of web application firewalls" was invented by Dujko Radovnikovic (Waltham, Mass.), Nenad Merdanovic (Velika, Croatia), Vedran Furac (Rijeka, Croatia) and Dragan Dosen (Zagreb, Croatia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A web application firewall may be configured to receiving incoming traffic from client devices with requests for an application hosted on a server. The incoming traffic may be processed using a first filter that is configured to apply rules that identify suspicious traffic in the incoming traffic. The suspicious traffic...