ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,786, issued on July 28, was assigned to Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (New Delhi).

"Method and apparatus for DDoS attack detection and mitigation in IoT network slices of 5G networks" was invented by Vireshwar Kumar (New Delhi), Syed Rameem Zahra (New Delhi) and Brejesh Lall (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and lightweight method detects and prevents DDoS attacks in a 5G-IoT slice in real-time without putting the stress of security on the constrained IoT devices. The apparatus includes eight IoT devices, a gNB, and 5G core network. The core network includes of AMF, SMF, UPF, PCF, UDR, and Network Data Ana...