ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,178, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Radware Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Characterization of illegitimate web transactions" was invented by Doron Shavit (Tel Aviv, Israel), Amnon Lotem (Ramot Hashavim, Israel) and Orly Stan Benchetrit (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for configuring a web application firewall (WAF) based on characterization of web attacks are provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of hypertext transfer protocol transactions (HTTP) entities; tokenizing the received plurality of HTTP entities based on at least one delimiter; analyzing statistical distribution of each ...