ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,704, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Ping Identity International Inc. (Denver).

"Intercepting worthless requests at the network edge using machine learning" was invented by Wayne Anthony Morrison (Bristol, Great Britain), Guillaume Rene Sauthier (Seyssinet-Pariset, France), Raminder Kaler (Redwood City, Calif.) and Joachim Andres (Seyssins, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology screens malicious and probing requests to establish an authorized session, collectively worthless requests, directed to a protected application, by using an identity gateway (IG) positioned as a network edge component on a network. Screening ...