ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,173, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ensign InfoSecurity Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"System and method for autonomously fingerprinting and enumerating internet of thing (IoT) devices based on nated IPFIX and DNS traffic" was invented by Lee Joon Sern (Singapore), Divakar Sivashankar (Singapore) and Koh Ting Yew (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes a system and method for detecting the presence of Internet of Things (IoTs) from network traffic that has undergone a Network Address Translation (NAT) process, i.e., NATed network traffic, regardless of whether the network traffic comprises IP Flow Information...