US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on March 18 for "IoT device identification with packet flow behavior machine learning model" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,906, issued on March 18, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"IoT device identification with packet flow behavior machine learning model" was invented by Jialiang Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Ke Tian (San Jose, Calif.) and Fan Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identifying Internet of Things (IoT) devices with packet flow behavior including by using machine learning models is disclosed. Information associated with a network communication of an IoT device is received. A determination of whether the IoT device has previously been classified is made. In response to determining that the IoT d...