ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,087, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Defending against computing attacks" was invented by Abhidnya Sushant Joshi (Pune, India), Poornima Gupte (Pune, India), Nisarga Lolage (Pune, India) and Narendra Pal Singh (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security service for detecting and/or deterring computing attacks. A security service maintains counters related to different attack types for applications or clients including distributed applications. Information regarding requests received by the application are processed by the security service. When any of the counters exceed an associate...