ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,590, issued on May 6.

"Techniques for malicious entity discovery" was invented by Tanvir Islam (Lake Stevens, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for access management are described. A software platform may identify devices of a botnet based on a cluster score associated with a device characteristic. For example, the software platform may receive a request from a device to access an application. The software platform may determine a cluster score for the characteristic of the device. The cluster score may be based on a link between the device and a list of devices (e.g., devices of a botnet). If the clu...