ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,389, issued on April 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Smart SDN for intrusion prevention" was invented by Jeff Hsueh-Chang Kuo (Taipei, Taiwan), June-Ray Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Ying-Chen Yu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Wen Su (Shihlin, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for smart SDN is provided. The present invention may include recording and clustering a pod's behavior to generate a behavior transition model for the pod. The present invention may include watching a behavior of the pod and comparing the behavior to the generated behavio...