ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,955, issued on March 17, was assigned to Radware Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Method and system for characterization and mitigation of encrypted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks" was invented by Avi Chesla (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Guy Perez (Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for mitigating encrypted distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks comprising: receiving a detection of an encrypted DDOS attack from an encrypted transaction related traffic, wherein the encrypted DDOS attack is associated with a plurality of transport layer security (TLS) fingerprints (FPs); classifying each of the plur...