ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,791, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Flow-based packet batching for optimized deep packet inspection" was invented by Gianpaolo Tedesco (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes for performing optimized batched packet processing in deep packet inspection (DPI) computing systems. A batch of network packets is received. A stateless processing operation is performed for the batch that includes updating a current time for the batch, decoding the network packets in the batch, creating a flowhash lookup key for each decoded network packet, and generat...