ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,482, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Silent voice over IP denial of service-repetitive call setup and hang up from an attacker" was invented by Jean-Luc Rene Bouthemy (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for preventing a denial-of-service attack at a victim agent of a telecommunication network include a victim agent and a session management system communicatively coupled to the victim agent and an attacker agent. The session management system is to receive a call termination message during a session, determine whether the call termination message incl...