ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,354, issued on April 1, was assigned to AIRO FINLAND OY (Helsinki).

"Protection against malicious data traffic" was invented by Jarmo Tapio Rouvinen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for defending against a malicious data traffic, the method includes: monitoring, by a defender device, data traffic flowing through a network device; generating a first control signal, by the defender device, in response to a detection that the data traffic includes a predefined amount of malicious data traffic, to cause a delivery of the data traffic to the defender device; terminating the malicious data traffic in the defen...