ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,768, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SNODE TECHNOLOGIES (PTY) LTD (Centurion, South Africa).

"Real-time threat detection for encrypted communications" was invented by Nithendren Naidoo (Centurion, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for real-time threat detection for encrypted communications are provided. A method includes monitoring a data stream in a network, such as an M2M network, including encrypted message data and non-encrypted metadata associated with the encrypted message data being transmitted between endpoints on the network. The method includes extracting data stream metadata from the data s...