ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,880, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Orthogonal rule based identification of security events" was invented by Leandro Pfleger de Aguiar (Leander, Texas), Vignesh Janakiraman (Frisco, Texas), Fnu Singh Karanpreet Singh (Lake Stevens, Wash.), Shivaraj Yanamandram Kuppuraju (Cedar Park, Texas) and Vishvesh Revoori (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alert generation system is disclosed. The alert generation system uses rules to identify which of many network events are threats. The rules include a first set of rules as pre-selection rules to identify a large number of network events a...