ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,714, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Attack defense method and device, and system" was invented by Bo Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attack defense method, where addresses in a protected network are divided into a plurality of address ranges that include a first address range and a second address range. The first address range is a proper subset of the second address range, or the second address range is a proper subset of the first address range. A protection device or a server coupled to the protection device collect statistics on first traffic that passes through ...