ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,481, issued on July 29, was assigned to Armis Security Ltd. (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).
"System and method for operating system distribution and version identification using communications security fingerprints" was invented by Yuval Sarel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ben Seri (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yuval Friedlander (Petah-Tiqwa, Israel), Tom Hanetz (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gil Ben Zvi (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Ron Shoham (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for inferring an operating system version for a device based on communications security data. A method includes identifying a plurality of sequences in communicati...