ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,890, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Infoblox Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Device anomaly detection based on DNS queries" was invented by Mark Edward Peterson (Barrington, Ill.), Fatemeh Riahi (Burnaby, Canada) and Marjan Rouhipour (North Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing device anomaly detection based on DNS queries are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, a process, and/or a computer program product for device anomaly detection based on DNS queries includes receiving Domain Name System (DNS) network activity, wherein the DNS network activity includes a plurality of DNS queries; proces...