ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,241, issued on April 29, was assigned to Forescout Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Device classification using machine learning models" was invented by Itai Koren (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Zvika Plotkin (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and related technologies for classification are described. Network traffic transmitted by a first device is obtained. A set of features is determined based on the network traffic. A first classification for the device is determine a first classification for the first device based on the set of features. The first classification is associated with a first classificat...