US Patent Issued to Ciena on May 13 for "Systems and methods for tracking, predicting, and mitigating advanced persistent threats in networks" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,690, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Systems and methods for tracking, predicting, and mitigating advanced persistent threats in networks" was invented by Sachin Subhedar (Alpharetta, Ga.), Roger Michael Elbaz (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Aung Htay (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for tracking, predicting, and mitigating Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks in a network include obtaining data related to events and triggers for one or more attacks, wherein the data includes a plurality of i) virtual currency transactions, ii) network traffic flow, and iii) sentiment on any...