US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on July 14 for "Out of band threat prevention" (Israeli, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,009, issued on July 14, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Out of band threat prevention" was invented by Rami Ailabouni (Eilabun, Israel), Meni Orenbach (Giv'atayim, Israel) and Ahmad Atamli (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a data processing unit (DPU). The DPU is to receive a notification associated with a virtualized computing environment on a host system coupled to the DPU. The DPU is associated with a security characteristic. A threat type associated with the threat is identified. Based on at least one of the threat type associated with the threat or the security...