US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on Feb. 4 for "Methods and techniques for real-time detection of infected IoT devices" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,968, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Methods and techniques for real-time detection of infected IoT devices" was invented by Elias Bou Harb (San Antonio) and Morteza Safaei Pour (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting and analyzing internet traffic from Internet of Things (IoT) devices is presented. A network telescope is employed to collect unsolicited data packets. The data packets are analyzed to determine whether they arise from a misconfigured device or from a malicious device (darknet sanitization) or from some other source...