ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,299, issued on June 17.

"Cyber security system and method using intelligent agents" was invented by Raymond Canfield (Olney, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cyber security method using intelligent agents (IAs) includes: watching, by the intelligent agent (IA), over a network, a software program running on a system; receiving, by the IA, results generated by the software; presenting, by the IA, the results; categorizing the results, by the IA, for efficient storage and efficient future retrieval; saving, by the IA, the categorized results; using the categorized results, by the IA, inferring new knowledge; categorizing the new kno...