ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,766, issued on July 28, was assigned to HSBC Group Management Services Ltd. (London).

"Identifying unauthorized entities from network traffic" was invented by Abigail Shriver (Miami), Jason Trost (Brookhaven, Ga.) and Jude Ken-Kwofie (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices to detect unauthorized third-party connections within a network infrastructure, such as by analyzing network traffic data using fuzzy matching and machine learning techniques. One aspect includes receiving network traffic data comprising records of communication events involving network identifiers, determining communication relationshi...