US Patent Issued to CLOUDFLARE on Oct. 21 for "Inspecting requests and responses to identify application vulnerabilities" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,292, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).

"Inspecting requests and responses to identify application vulnerabilities" was invented by Michiel Louis Appelman (Amersfoort, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge server of a cloud-based application vulnerability detection service receives a first request from a requesting device to access a resource hosted by an origin server. The edge server can determine that the first request has indications of including malicious content and block the first request. The edge server can then send a second request to a test environment of the origin server, wh...