ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,914, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Infoblox Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automated identification of false positives in DNS tunneling detectors" was invented by Peter Boord (Puyallup, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for automated identification of false positives in DNS tunneling detectors are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product for automated identification of false positives in DNS tunneling detectors includes receiving a set of passive DNS data, wherein the set of passive DNS data includes a DNS query and a DNS response for resolution of the DNS query for each of a...