US Patent Issued to Bitdefender IPR Management on Jan. 27 for "Device identification and deduplication systems and methods" (Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,819, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. (Nicosia, Cyprus).

"Device identification and deduplication systems and methods" was invented by Bela Genge (Tirgu Mures, Romania) and Dan Macovei (Buchare, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments construct a device fingerprint of a target device (e.g., personal computer, smartphone) by intercepting an access request issued by the target device. A part of the device fingerprint may be determined according to the access request, e.g., according to various features of a TLS handshake, TCP header, and/or HTTP header of the respective access request. ...