US Patent Issued to Huntress Labs on April 29 for "Apparatus and method for conducting endpoint-network-monitoring" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,871, issued on April 29, was assigned to Huntress Labs Inc. (Ellicott City, Md.).

"Apparatus and method for conducting endpoint-network-monitoring" was invented by Robert Julian Noeth (San Antonio) and Ernest Gregory Ake (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an intrusion detection technique configured to: obtain kernel-filter criteria indicative of which network traffic is to be deemed potentially malicious, determine that a network packet is resident in a networking stack, access at least part of the network packet, apply the kernel-filter criteria to the at least part of the network packet and, based on applying th...