ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,761, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Adaptive rate limiter based on transactional heuristics and artificial intelligence" was invented by Manish Pathak (Milpitas, Calif.), Krishna Murthy Pokuri (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Parush Gera (Tampa, Fla.) and Sankar muthu Paramasivam (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and device for adaptively limiting web requests is disclosed. The method includes (i) receiving a request at a proxy for an authentication service, (ii) determining whether the request is trusted based at least in part on a classification obtained from...