ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,661, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detecting network activity from sampled network metadata" was invented by Omer Karin (Tel Aviv, Israel), Idan Y. Hen (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Roy Levin (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for cloud traffic monitoring. A method can include receiving sampled network metadata of a packet transmitted via a computer network, providing the sampled network metadata to a neural network (NN) trained on labeled sampled network metadata, and providing, based on only the sampled networ...