ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,222, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic threat intelligence model to handle network attacks" was invented by Iranna Dharmaraya Ankad (Bengaluru, India), Manvanthara Bekkalee Puttashankar (Bangalore, India) and Nageswara Sastry Renduchintala (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided to include in a header of a network communications data structure, an identifier comprising a compliance flag ratio (CFR). Operations are performed for computing a value for the CFR of a network address, and based on the computed value for the CFR of the network add...