ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,094, issued on April 22, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Utilizing machine learning models for network traffic categorization" was invented by Ajit Krishna Patankar (Fremont, Calif.), Kaushik Adesh Agrawal (Chelmsford, Mass.), Kihwan Han (Pleasanton, Calif.), Monimoy Deb Purkayastha (Bangalore, India), Patrick John Melampy (Dunstable, Mass.) and Patrick Timmons (Natick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive network traffic data that includes network traffic packet sizes, and may transform the network traffic data into transformed data. The device may process the transformed data, with a ...