ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,451, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Foundational model for network packet traces" was invented by Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, N.Y.), Davis Wertheimer (White Plains, N.Y.), Franck Vinh Le (West Palm Beach, Fla.), Utpal Mangla (Toronto), Satishkumar Sadagopan (Leawood, Kan.), Mathews Thomas (Flower Mound, Texas) and Dinesh C. Verma (New Castle, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments related to using a foundational model for network packet traces. A technique includes receiving network traffic of a network and extracting features from the network traffic, the featu...