ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,834, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for detecting destination network address translation (DNAT) in network paths" was invented by Pankaj Chhabra (Surrey, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for detecting Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) in network paths. Systems and methods include sending a Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) CONNECT request to a proxy in a network path; receiving a response to the HTTP request; monitoring a header of the response to the HTTPS request; and determining that the proxy is a Destination Network Address Translation...