ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,600, issued on May 13, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"IoT device identification by machine learning with time series behavioral and statistical features" was invented by Ke Tian (San Jose, Calif.), Yilin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaoyi Duan (San Jose, Calif.) and Jun Du (Cupertino, 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 m...