ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,747, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to AGARI DATA INC. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Message campaign and malicious threat detection" was invented by Scot Free Kennedy (San Francisco), Ho Ming Gabriel Poon (San Francisco), Siobhan McNamara (Mountain View, Calif.), Jacob Rudee Rideout (Raleigh, N.C.) and Vidur Apparao (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information associated with a received message is received. It is determined whether the received message is a part of a group of related messages. Based on a determination that the received message is a part of the group of related messages, a security action for one or more me...