ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,885, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Avast Software s.r.o. (Prague).

"Computing threat detection rule systems and methods" was invented by Michal Najman (Vsetin, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing threat detection rule method and system for performing the method. The method includes determining identifiers for data points. One or more terms for each of the data points are determined to determine terms respectively associated with the identifiers. Collections of identifiers respectively associated with the terms are determined, the number of identifiers in each of the collections of identifiers limited to a t...