ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,313, issued on May 5, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Detection of malicious beaconing in virtual private networks" was invented by Sandeep Chandana (Fremont, Calif.), Aditya Kumar (Pune, India) and Ameya Mahesh Sanzgiri (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes accessing virtual private cloud flow logs of network traffic data originating from a virtual private cloud, generating filtered flow logs by filtering the virtual private cloud flow logs, extracting features based on a plurality of attributes from the filtered flow logs, training one or more machine learning models ...