ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,696, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Harness Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method and system for detecting volumetric attacks using multi-phase analysis of application programming interface calls" was invented by Jisheng Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sanjay Nagaraj (Dublin, Calif.), Min-yi Shen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Swapnil Kura (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting volumetric attacks using multi-phase analysis of API calls is disclosed. The method includes collecting API calls data having API calls to and from protected actors. The method also includes identifying a triggering suspicious time window during which...