ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,958, issued on March 31, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Flexible deterministic finite automata (DFA) tokenizer for AI-based malicious traffic detection" was invented by Kun Qiu (Shanghai), Hao Chang (Shanghai), Ying Wang (Shanghai), Wenjun Zhu (Shanghai), Xiahui Yu (Shanghai), Yingqi Liu (Shanghai), Baoqian Li (Shanghai) and Weigang Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for a flexible Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA) tokenizer for AI-based malicious traffic detection. A DFA compiler is used to process profiles, such as SQLi, HTML5 and XSS profiles, as well as user-defined profiles,...