ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,470, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).
"IOT blockchain DDOS detection and countermeasures" was invented by Rani Yadav-Ranjan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Arthur R. Brisebois (Westport Point, Mass.) and Serene Banerjee (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks launched using internet of things (IoT) devices may be detected and addressed using decentralized computing, potentially in combination with blockchain or other decentralized ledger technology. One method of doing this may include identifying an anomaly by comparing traffic data agai...