ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,860, issued on March 25, was assigned to Arctic Wolf Networks Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Cybersecurity state change buffer service" was invented by Joshua McCarthy (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Nicholas Graves (Fresno, Calif.), David B McKinley (Dartmouth, Mass.) and William Wilson (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed techniques include integrated cybersecurity state change buffer service. A plurality of network-connected cybersecurity threat protection applications is accessed. A background synchronization service is initiated. The background synchronization service receives status from at least one of the plurality...