ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,200, issued on April 7, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Detecting abnormal packet traffic using fingerprints for plural protocol types" was invented by Jing Peng (Shenzhen, China), Yong Yang (Shenzhen, China), Xiang Gan (Shenzhen, China), Xing Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Aisi Xu (Shenzhen, China), Shanshan Hua (Shenzhen, China), Jing Guo (Shenzhen, China), You Chang (Shenzhen, China), Yuhe Fan (Shenzhen, China), Wentao Tang (Shenzhen, China), Junli Shen (Shenzhen, China), Shu He (Shenzhen, China), Yue Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Yu Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for...