ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,889, issued on March 31, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Denial of service protection" was invented by Yuval Avnery (Hahotrim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to monitor incoming data flows from a plurality of network sources and identify a data flow from any of the plurality of sources that exceeds a threshold value. In at least one embodiment, the data flow from any of the plurality of sources that exceeds the threshold value are rate-limited while the data flow from any of the plurality of sources that do not exceed the threshold value are passed through wi...