ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,694, issued on May 12, was assigned to Infoblox Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"DNS early threat response" was invented by Renee Carol Burton (Seattle) and Darin Johnson (Laurel, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques for providing a DNS Early Threat Executive Response System (DETERS) are disclosed. In some embodiments, DETERS is a comprehensive DNS threat detection, response, and reporting system with a modular analytics architecture that allows for early detection of suspicious activity in near real-time. DETERS can identify threats before they are able to spread or compromise systems. DETERS uses a combination of stream...