ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,639, issued on July 21, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting anomalous network behavior in operational technology protocols" was invented by Ke Tian (San Jose, Calif.), Aveek Kumar Das (Union City, Calif.), Derick Liang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rahul Rajewar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Gong Cheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mei Wang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for detecting anomalous network behavior in operational technology (OT) protocols are disclosed. A system, process, and/or computer program product for detecting anomalous network behavior in OT protocols include monitorin...