ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,221, issued on April 15, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (Great Britain).

"Computer-implemented automatic security methods and systems" was invented by Fadi El-Moussa (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method of automatically securing a computer system or network against a suspect binary file (SBF) by, in response to detection of the SBF, initiating an automatic defence strategy. The automatic defence strategy includes a first action known to mitigate a known threat posed by a known malicious binary file (KMBF); and a further action predicted to mi...