ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,232, issued on March 11, was assigned to Fastly Inc. (San Francisco).

"Management of bot detection in a content delivery network" was invented by Christian Peron (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for managing bot detection in a content delivery network (CDN). In one implementation, a cache node in a CDN may obtain a content request without a valid token for content not cached on the cache node and, in response to the content request, generate a synthetic response for the content request, wherein the synthetic response comprises a request for additional information from ...