ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,325, issued on June 10, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Probabilistic event linking" was invented by Sseziwa Mukasa (Salem, Mass.) and Daniel Brown (Ipswich, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring a network for linked events includes receiving an indication of an occurrence of a first event in a computing environment, calculating a first estimated rate of occurrence of the first event based on a first cache associated with the first event, and identifying an occurrence of a second event within a threshold amount of time prior to the occurrence of the first event. The method further includes...