ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,398, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Radware Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Techniques for detecting advanced application layer flood attack tools" was invented by Ehud Doron (Moddi'in, Israel), Alon Tamir (Kiryat Ono, Israel) and David Aviv (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting application layer flood denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks carried by attackers utilizing advanced application layer flood attack tools are provided. The method processing application-layer transactions received during a current time window to detect a rate-based anomaly in a traffic directed to a protected entity; p...