ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,885, issued on March 18, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"User in group behavior signature monitor" was invented by Nickolay Berko (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), Serg Bell (Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of monitoring a user behavior for abnormalities compared to a group behavior includes a processor configured to implement instructions for a user to group behavior signature monitor (UGBSM) with at least one user, as a monitored user, and a group of one or more users, as baseline users, to access to certain characteristics of the monitored us...