US Patent Issued to HYAS Infosec on Sept. 30 for "Identification and inspection of outlier domain name system requests" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,237, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HYAS Infosec Inc. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Identification and inspection of outlier domain name system requests" was invented by David J. Mitchell (Danville, Calif.) and Paul C. van Gool (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein enables identification of outlier DNS requests so the identified requests can be inspected to determine whether the identified requests may be associated with suspicious activity. In a particular example, a method provides determining characteristics of a Domain Name System (DNS) request and generating a score for the DNS reque...