ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,139, issued on July 15, was assigned to AppOmni Inc. (San Francisco).

"Event stream-based threat detection" was invented by Michael Brancato (Lexington, Ky.) and Drew Gatchell (Berryville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Event stream-based threat detection is disclosed, including: determining that an event from a stream of events is an influencing event by comparing the event to an alert rule; storing a new cache entry associated with the influencing event in a detection cache, wherein the new cache entry includes a fingerprint associated with the influencing event; querying the detection cache using at least the fingerprint assoc...